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Abstract Humans are not only fearful apes, but we also communicate our fear using social cues. Social fear displays typically elicit care and assistance in the real world and the… Click to show full abstract
Abstract Humans are not only fearful apes, but we also communicate our fear using social cues. Social fear displays typically elicit care and assistance in the real world and the lab. But in the psychology and neuroscience literature fearful expressions are commonly interpreted as “threat cues.” The fearful ape hypothesis suggests that fearful expressions should be instead considered appeasement and vulnerability cues.
Keywords:
fear signals;
signals vulnerability;
vulnerability appeasement;
threat;
fear
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023
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