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Incident experience and freezing in firefighters. Incident experience and freezing in firefighters. doi:10.17026/DANS-XRV-VGZEeasy-dataset:74263 V. Ly 2017-09-24 DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities 2017-09-24 Social Sciencesrisk responsefreezingtime of response <p>Freezing is a defensive response to acute stress that is associated with coping and alterations in attentional processing. However, it remains unclear whether individuals in high risk professions, who are skilled at making rapid decisions in emergency situations, show altered threat-induced freezing. Here we investigated the effect of incident experience in a high risk profession on freezing. Additionally, we explored whether any effect of incident experience on freezing would be different for profession-related and -unrelated threat. Forty experienced and inexperienced firefighters were presented neutral, pleasant, related-unpleasant, and unrelated-unpleasant pictures in a passive viewing task. Postural sway and heart rate were assessed to determine freezing. Both postural and heart rate data evidenced reduced freezing upon unpleasant pictures in the experienced versus the inexperienced group. Relatedness of the unpleasant pictures did not modulate these effects. These findings indicate that higher incident experience relates to decreased threat-induced freezing, at least in a passive task context. This might suggest that primary defense responses are malleable through experience. Finally, these findings demonstrate the potential of using animal to human translational approaches to investigate defensive behaviors in relation to incident experience in high risk professions and stimulate future research on the role of freezing in resilience and coping.</p> https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai doi:10.17026/DANS-XRV-VGZE 2025-12-03T01:00:46Z ddi:codebook:2_5