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Human Young Children as well as Adults Demonstrate ‘Superior’ Rapid Snake Detection When Typical Striking Posture Is Displayed by the Snake

Humans as well as some nonhuman primates have an evolved predisposition to associate snakes with fear by detecting their presence as fear-relevant stimuli more rapidly than fear-irrelevant ones. In the present experiment, a total of 74 of 3- to 4-year-old children and adults were asked to find a sin...

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Autores principales: Masataka, Nobuo, Hayakawa, Sachiko, Kawai, Nobuyuki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21152050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015122