Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds "Commentary"

Dwyer, Dominic ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-5508 and Heyes, Cecilia 2023. Fearfulness: An important addition to the starter kit for distinctively human minds "Commentary". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46 , e62. 10.1017/S0140525X22001972

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Abstract

Grossmann's impressive article indicates that – along with attentional biases, expansion of domain-general processes of learning and memory, and other temperamental tweaks – heightened fearfulness is part of the genetic starter kit for distinctively human minds. The learned matching account of emotional contagion explains how heightened fearfulness could have promoted the development of caring and cooperation in our species.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1469-1825
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 May 2023
Date of Acceptance:	30 July 2022
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2023 17:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159588

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