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More and more people die a violent death nowadays. Yet, under equally dangerous conditions, some individuals perish and others survive. Why does this happen? It is known that the behavior of a subject who experiences stress depends not only on its nature but on his subjective evaluation of the situation, on his individual behavioral strategy (determined by the genotype and phenotype), and his knowledge of the situation. Observing several batches whose job was to work under extreme or dangerous conditions and the people whom we made work under conditions they were not used to, we concluded that there is a program of hypermobilizing the functional state of the body in all humans' generic memory stores; this program may be activated (or not activated) in autogenous stress. It is triggered more rapidly in those who do habitual extreme work or have psychological motivation for certain type of behavior under dangerous conditions. There are reasons to believe that verbal enrichment of the conceptual model of activity and practical training in extreme situations may replace the strategy of passive behavior of a subject by active behavior and prepare any human for sudden dangers, if they are modeled psychologically and physiologically. The article includes description of training methods for the batches who work under mortally dangerous conditions.
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Pavlov, A.S. Psychophysiological Mechanisms and Consequences of Autogenous Stress. Human Physiology 28, 420–427 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016577814680
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