What Psychology Says About People Who Tend to Shut up to Avoid Fights

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Keeping silent in the face of a conflictive situation is a daily behavior that, far from simply being a strategy to keep calm, often hides complex emotional roots. According to specialists, this protection mechanism — often presented in forms such as ghosting or silent resignation in the workplace — can reveal insecurities, fears or a marked difficulty in managing differences of opinion with the environment.