Fear of Snakes

Fear of Snakes

Evolutionary and Psychobiological Perspectives on Our Innate Fear

Kawai, Nobuyuki

Springer Verlag, Singapore

09/2020

187

Mole

Inglês

9789811375323

15 a 20 dias

454

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Historical transition of psychological theories of fear: The view of fear in Behaviorism.- Are snakes special in human fear learning and cognition?: The preparedness theory of phobia and the fear module theory.- The Underlying Neuronal Circuits of Fear Learning and the Snake Detection Theory (SDT).- Ontogeny and phylogeny of snake fear.- Do snakes draw attention more strongly than spiders or other animals?.- Other types of studies showing that snakes hold special status in threat perception.- Searching for the critical features of snakes.- Issues that remain unanswered.
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Primatology;Primates;Predisposed visual system;Human evolution;Ophidiophobia;Comparative cognitive science;Phobia;Monkeys;Aversiveness;Brain;Neural mechanism;Serpent