Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds
- PMID: 37154362
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22001972
Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds
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.
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Extending and refining the fearful ape hypothesis.Behav Brain Sci. 2023 May 8;46:e81. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002837. Behav Brain Sci. 2023. PMID: 37154374
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The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care.Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Apr 18;46:e52. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2200067X. Behav Brain Sci. 2022. PMID: 35431016
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