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People aren’t born afraid of spiders and snakes: Fear is quickly learned during infancy (Study)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by SCIENCE pickings

“..Susan Mineka’s research (from Northwestern University) shows that monkeys that are raised in the lab aren’t afraid of snakes, but they’ll learn to fear snakes much more readily than flowers or rabbits. The authors of the Current Directions in Psychological … Continue reading →

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