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Venomous snakes elicit stronger fear than nonvenomous ones: Psychophysiological response to snake images

Snakes have been important ambush predators of both primates and human hunter-gatherers throughout their co-evolutionary history. Viperid snakes in particular are responsible for most fatal venomous snakebites worldwide and thus represent a strong selective pressure. They elicit intense fear in huma...

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Autores principales: Landová, Eva, Peléšková, Šárka, Sedláčková, Kristýna, Janovcová, Markéta, Polák, Jakub, Rádlová, Silvie, Vobrubová, Barbora, Frynta, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32813734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236999