[Lockdown] “Fight or flight” isn’t the only stress response buried in your caveman brain; “tend and befriend” is actually the more useful hardwired reaction for times like these. More often observed in women, it’s the instinct to “tend” to and nurture those around you, and to build your social networks by “befriending” people. As Ashley Abramson writes for Forge, it “may be especially beneficial right now, when most of us are struggling in isolation, stressed out by a threat — the virus — that renders both fight and flight useless.”