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Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds

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Abstract Grossmann's impressive article indicates that – along with attentional biases, expansion of domain-general processes of learning and memory, and other temperamental tweaks – heightened fearfulness is part of the… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Grossmann's impressive article indicates that – along with attentional biases, expansion of domain-general processes of learning and memory, and other temperamental tweaks – heightened fearfulness is part of the genetic starter kit for distinctively human minds. The learned matching account of emotional contagion explains how heightened fearfulness could have promoted the development of caring and cooperation in our species.

Keywords: starter kit; fearfulness important; distinctively human; kit distinctively; human minds

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023

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