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Threat-detection in child development: An evolutionary perspective

✍ Scribed by Pascal Boyer; Brian Bergstrom

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 222 KB
Volume: 35
Category: Article
ISSN: 0149-7634
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.08.010

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✦ Synopsis

Evidence for developmental aspects of fear-targets and anxiety suggests a complex but stable pattern whereby specific kinds of fears emerge at different periods of development. This developmental schedule seems appropriate to dangers encountered repeatedly during human evolution. Also consistent with evolutionary perspective, the threat-detection systems are domain-specific, comprising different kinds of cues to do with predation, intraspecific violence, contamination-contagion and status loss. Proper evolutionary models may also be relevant to outstanding issues in the domain, notably the connections between typical development and pathology.

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