<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Social posture escalates conflict when one... > Social posture escalates conflict when one person's speed, distance, volume, certainty, gaze, or contempt becomes threat information that recruits a defensive anti-posture from another. Each participant then adapts to the response they helped evoke, and the interaction begins producing its own evidence that conflict was inevitable. The loop can often be interrupted only after someone stops treating the answering posture as proof that the first posture was necessary. **Source:** [[livestreams/How Social Posture Escalates Conflict - Workbook|How Social Posture Escalates Conflict]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Social posture escalates conflict when one person's speed, distance, volume, certainty, gaze, or contempt becomes threat information that recruits a defensive anti-posture from another. Each participant then adapts to the response they helped evoke, and the interaction begins producing its own evidence that conflict was inevitable. The loop can often be interrupted only after someone stops treating the answering posture as proof that the first posture was necessary.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-social-posture-escalates-first-posture-necessary ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->