Hooding cobras can get ahead of other snakes in the ability to evoke human fear
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DOI: 10.1007/s00114-024-01952-2
Abstract: Fear of snakes is common not only in humans but also in other primates. Consequently, snakes are salient stimuli associated with prioritized attention, early detection and emotional significance. This has been interpreted as an adaptive… read more here.
Keywords: snakes ability; human fear; fear; posture ... See more keywords
Predicting clinical outcomes via human fear conditioning: A narrative review.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103870
Abstract: A common assumption in human fear conditioning research is that findings are informative for the etiology and treatment of clinical anxiety. One way to empirically evaluate the external validity of fear conditioning is by prospective… read more here.
Keywords: research; fear; anxiety; fear conditioning ... See more keywords
The (shared) features of fear: Toward the source of human fear responding.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.005
Abstract: Little is known about why people behave the way they do in threatening situations. Some theories invoke a transfer of responses from unconditioned stimuli (US) to conditioned stimuli (CS), but this principle goes astray because responses to… read more here.
Keywords: shared features; features fear; human fear; fear responding ... See more keywords
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x2200067x
Abstract: Abstract Already as infants humans are more fearful than our closest living primate relatives, the chimpanzees. Yet heightened fearfulness is mostly considered maladaptive, as it is thought to increase the risk of developing anxiety and… read more here.
Keywords: human fear; paradox affective; affective origins; care ... See more keywords
The human fear paradox turns out to be less paradoxical when global changes in human aggression and language evolution are considered
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22001947
Abstract: Abstract Our commentary focuses on the interaction between Grossmann's fearful ape hypothesis (FAH) and the human self-domestication hypothesis (HSDH), also taking into account language acquisition and evolution. Although there is considerable overlap between the two… read more here.
Keywords: turns less; human fear; language; evolution ... See more keywords