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Monday, June 25, 2007

Research for fear

There's a good write up on this link about Mineka and how she taught monkeys to fear.

http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/emotion/Mineka.html

'Laboratory-reared rhesus monkeys do not show a fear of snakes, so this fear is not innate. After lab-reared monkeys observed for only a few minutes a wild-reared monkey reacting with intense fear to a live boa constrictor...'

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