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Cause your nervous system knows what a snake is but doesn't know what a picture is?
by andai 11mo ago
Cause your nervous system knows what a snake is but doesn't know what a picture is?
- iberator 11mo agoIt is proven by science that there is no such thing as an intuitive fear of snakes. Its 100% cultural. Toddlers don't fear snakes for example.
- nxpnsv 11mo agoIs culture how cats and cucumbers work?
- fainpul 11mo agoNo, that's how surprise works. As in "Cop scared by mannequin": https://youtu.be/xf1Y2En4fGE?si=2RwRnGBoGHuCNogG&t=416 https://youtu.be/xf1Y2En4fGE?si=2RwRnGBoGHuCNogG&t=416
- suzzer99 11mo agoWhat about spiders?
- abc_lisper 11mo agoReference?
- pavel_lishin 11mo agohttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6716607/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6716607/
- defrost 11mo agoI'm aligned with @iberator here. I grew up with children and people in Northern Australia that had zero fear of snakes and spiders with plenty of exposure to both. When I was 13 a friend of my sister, a large imposing Torres Strait Islander girl, visited and saw a cat for the very first time and screamed fit to break glass while jumping back to break the wall panel and up onto the couch. This was someone comfortable handling large live mud crabs on the floor, gutting fish, handling snakes and killing them, etc.