Find Your Trauma Response, Free 12-Question Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn Test
Free trauma response test, 12 questions reveal whether your stress style leans Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn, plus how to work with your default reaction. Instant, no signup.
What is the Trauma Response?
The trauma response model, often called the four Fs (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn), describes the automatic ways your nervous system reacts when it senses threat. Its roots are in physiologist Walter Cannon's 1915 description of the fight-or-flight response, extended by later research on the freeze (tonic immobility) state, with the fawn response named by psychotherapist Pete Walker in his work on complex trauma. It puts plain language to a familiar experience: under pressure, some people push back, some bolt into motion, some go blank, and some rush to keep everyone else happy.
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Fight mobilises confrontation and control; flight mobilises escape, busyness, and avoidance; freeze conserves energy through stillness and shutdown; and fawn seeks safety through appeasement and people-pleasing. These reactions are fast and automatic — they fire through the autonomic nervous system before conscious thought catches up, which is why your default can feel impossible to override in the moment. Most people have one dominant response plus a backup or two that surface in different relationships and situations.
JobCannon's trauma response test asks 12 quick questions about how you react to stress, conflict, and pressure, then maps your answers to your most likely default style and how to work with it. It is an educational self-reflection tool, not a clinical assessment — it estimates a stress-coping style in everyday terms; it does not measure trauma or diagnose any condition. If your stress responses are disrupting your life, a licensed mental-health professional is the right next step.
Closely related on JobCannon: Attachment Styles test, Conflict Styles test, and Anxiety screener.
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