Introduction

In real life, many decisions are influenced by emotional impulses coloured through preconceptions and sometimes even shortcomings – it is all too easy to fall back instinctively into ingrained patterns whether these are reasonable or not. The mind easily goes back to habitual base reactions – if you usually run, you run; if you usually fight, you fight. This fight-or-flight response is well-documented and is deeply rooted in our brains in order for us to be able to act without conscious decision-making in time-wise critical situations. In modern society, however, there are problems with this response. Most decision situations do not call for such a swift response, making that decision method and response less useful. Also, we are nowadays often not able to respond by either fleeing or fighting back. Thus, we are caught in fight-flight-fright situations, where fright stands for having to absorb the stress rather than act unless we have useful and stable mechanisms and procedures for making good decisions.