The Fear of Snakes Evolutionary and Psychobiological Perspectives on Our Innate Fear /

• Main Author: Kawai, Nobuyuki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Science of the Mind,
• Subjects: Behavioral sciences.; Biological psychology.; Neurobiology.; Life sciences.; Neurosciences.; Behavioral Sciences.; Biological Psychology.; Popular Life Sciences.

This book provides a series of compelling evidence that shows that humans have innate fear of snakes. Building on the previous studies on the Snake Detection Theory (SDT), the author presents a summary of psychological and neuropsychological experiments to explain the fear of snakes in humans and pr...

Table of Contents:

• Historical transition of psychological theories of fear: The view of fear in Behaviorism
• Are snakes special in human fear learning and cognition?: The preparedness theory of phobia and the fear module theory
• The Underlying Neuronal Circuits of Fear Learning and the Snake Detection Theory (SDT)
• Ontogeny and phylogeny of snake fear
• Do snakes draw attention more strongly than spiders or other animals?
• Other types of studies showing that snakes hold special status in threat perception
• Searching for the critical features of snakes
• Issues that remain unanswered.