Tuesday, February 22, 2011

People aren't born afraid of spiders and snakes: Fear is quickly learned during infancy

ScienceDaily (2011-01-25) -- There's a reason why Hollywood makes movies like Arachnophobia and Snakes on a Plane: Most people are afraid of spiders and snakes. A new article reviews research with infants and toddlers and finds that we aren't born afraid of spiders and snakes, but we can learn these fears very quickly.

1 comment:

  1. thanks. (especially for not adding a scary spider pic!)

    We posted a, "STOP placing big photos of gigantic hairy SPIDERS" comment to YahoO (as they have done so on their news-feed page several times, simply trying to cover all bases (fear, happy, sexy, etc) for the all mighty dollar). PLEASE UP vote it - and hopefully comment on it. https://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/206380-us-homepage/suggestions/6670098-stop-placing-pic-of-giant-spiders-in-the-way-of-se

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