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.
Read the full story here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124111144.htm
thanks. (especially for not adding a scary spider pic!)
ReplyDeleteWe 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