Now, if one looks at the experiments carried out to study fear, one will find that the objects most commonly used to provoke that feeling are snakes and spiders . We can comfort ourselves knowing that we are not alone. Our chimpanzee cousins have a terrible aversion to snakes: captive-born chimps scream in terror when they first see a snake.
Other common fears are those related to our natural environment such as height, storms , large carnivores, darkness, blood, deep water and among social people we have the fear of strangers, what they will say and leaving the house alone. They are fears caused by the dangers that haunted us when we lived in the savannah and fear was the emotion that forced us to overcome them.
It is curious that all those ancient fears are still so alive among us. Taking into account the environment we live in, we should be afraid of things like guns, cars, butane gas, using the hairdryer near the bathtub … but not spiders or mice . In a surprising survey of Chicago schoolchildren, who, like any child, are conveniently told off by their parents if they cross the street without looking or casually play ball near cars, the most scary reasons were not cars going. at high speed but tigers, lions and snakes . Some really unlikely dangers in a modern city .
