A cross-cultural study of animal fears

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作者
Davey, GCL [1 ]
McDonald, AS
Hirisave, U
Prabhu, GG
Iwawaki, S
Jim, CI
Merckelbach, H
de Jong, PJ
Leung, PWL
Reimann, BC
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Sch Cognit & Comp Sci, Psychol Grp, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
[2] Natl Inst Mental Hlth & Neurosci, Bangalore 560029, Karnataka, India
[3] Showa Womens Univ, Tokyo, Japan
[4] Maastricht Univ, Maastricht, Netherlands
[5] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[6] Ctr Study & Treatment Anxiety Disorders, Oconomowoc, WI USA
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10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00059-X
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The present study represents a cross-cultural study of animal fears in which subjects from seven Western and Asian countries were asked to rate their fear of a range of familiar animals. Factor analyses of these ratings in all samples revealed a coherent three factor solution in which animals fell into a fear-irrelevant, fear-relevant (fierce) or disgust-relevant category. The core group of animals making up the disgust-relevant category were similar across cultures. Some views on how a universal disgust-relevant category of feared animals may have developed are discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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