Adaptation to potential threat: The evol
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Erik Z. Woody; Henry Szechtman
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The risk of improbable, uncertain, but grave potential dangers poses unique adaptive challenges. We argue that to manage such risks, a special motivational system evolved, which we term the security motivation system. Review of work across a range of species indicates that this system is designed to