Did we have psychological defense mechanisms before we started to farm?

Question

Did we have psychological defense mechanisms before we started to farm?

Answer 1

Certainly, there are always factors like relationships and deceit that build on defense mechanisms.

Answer 2

Pain is our most important response to the environment...

Poke an organism, and it will retract...

Poke it 100 times in the same location, and it will make adjustments to the poking, by moving away from the source of pain...

That's how a psychological attitude develops...

Answer 3

One of the most common psychological defense mechanisms existed long before farming and is prevalent even in animals and is commonly known as the fight or flight response.

Answer 4

First of all, fight or flight is not a defense mechanism. This basic emotion, urge, feeling, decision is the product of the reptilian portion of our brain and is a reaction found in almost all animals, humans included.

I never gave the question much thought but off the cuff, I suppose since most, not all, defense mechanisms either require interacting with others or are needed to interact with others., we have had such personality assistants for several stages of development in ancient pre-modern human ancestors until and including modern man.

Answer 5

did you mean form?