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  Psychological ScienceVolume 19 Issue 3, Pages 284 - 289 Published Online: 3 Mar 2008 © 2009 Association for Psychological Science
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 303K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Research Article Detecting the Snake in the Grass: Attention to Fear-Relevant Stimuli by Adults and Young Children Copyright © 2008 Association for Psychological Science ABSTRACTABSTRACT—Snakes are among the most common targets of fears and phobias. In visual detection tasks, adults detect their presence more rapidly than the presence of other kinds of visual stimuli. We report evidence that very young children share this attentional bias. In three experiments, preschool children and adults were asked to find a single target picture among an array of eight distractors. Both the children and the adults detected snakes more rapidly than three types of nonthreatening stimuli (flowers, frogs, and caterpillars). These results provide the first evidence of enhanced visual detection of evolutionarily relevant threat stimuli in young children. (Received 5/1/07; Revision accepted 9/6/07) | 
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