Harm or protection? Two-sided consequences of females' susceptible responses to multiple threats.

The target article presented a plausible argument that females' susceptibility to threats might be self-protection for staying alive , but some evidence requires scrutiny. We need to consider (1) the biases of narrative reviews, (2) subjective life quality, and (3) the shadow side of extreme reactions to threats before concluding that females' threat-based response is a self-protection mechanism that promotes survival.