“Far from this fear being hard-wired, for LoBue it is now clear that fear of snakes and spiders is culturally conditioned.
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“It’s not adaptive to have any hard-wired fear,” she says, because it would limit a young infant’s desire to explore new things.Instead, we have evolved to quickly learn to be afraid of something if it turns out to be dangerous.”
When you were a baby, you were not scared of snakes
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