Animals evoking fear in the Cradle of Humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10468117" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10468117 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hd2HL1Ybav" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hd2HL1Ybav</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-023-01859-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00114-023-01859-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Animals evoking fear in the Cradle of Humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores
Original language description
Theories explain the presence of fears and specific phobias elicited by animals in contemporary WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations by their evolutionary past in Africa. Nevertheless, empirical data about fears of animals in the Cradle of Humankind are still fragmentary. To fill this gap, we examined which local animals are perceived as the most frightening by Somali people, who inhabit a markedly similar environment and the region where humans have evolved. We asked 236 raters to rank 42 stimuli according to their elicited fear. The stimuli were standardized pictures of species representing the local fauna. The results showed that the most frightening animals were snakes, scorpions, the centipede, and large carnivores (cheetahs and hyenas). These were followed up by lizards and spiders. Unlike in Europe, spiders represent less salient stimuli than scorpions for Somali respondents in this study. This conforms to the hypothesis suggesting that fear of spiders was extended or redirected from other chelicerates.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-21608S" target="_blank" >GA20-21608S: A cross-cultural study of response to snakes in the cradle of humankind: Is fear evolutionarily conserved?</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Science of Nature : Die Naturwissenschaften
ISSN
0028-1042
e-ISSN
1432-1904
Volume of the periodical
110
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
33
UT code for WoS article
001022913200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85163937684