Meaning of snake fear | Babel Free

Definitions

A fear of snakes.

uncountable

Examples

“The present writer is inclined to think that cat-fear is analogous to snake-fear.”

“All groups would demonstrate reductions in snake fear during treatment.”

“[…] it is meaningful to consider differences between high and low snake fear groups in general, rather than considering each separate measure of fear individually.”

“There was no snake fear in infant primates (Lorenz 1971) or in human infants up to 2 years old; in humans caution appeared by age 3% and definite fear by age 4 (Jones & Jones 1928), while fear increased from age 4 to 6 (Morris & Morris 1965).”

“His snakefear if anything was more unhealthy than healthy, carrying with it an almost uncontrollable tendency to freeze into a panic-stricken target.”

“Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning (Ohman and Mineka, 2003).”

“A well-known research example is the use of Fear Thermometer ratings during behavioral approach tasks in the early snake-fear desensitization experiments.”

“Presumably, when preparedness for snake fear was being naturally selected, delaying one's fearresponse while one drew a distinction between poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes was not the most adaptive way to respond to the situation of suddenly coming across a snake.”

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