Citation

Marsh AA. Behav. Brain Sci. 2023; 46: e71.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X22001753

PMID

37154367

Abstract

Humans are not only fearful apes, but we also communicate our fear using social cues. Social fear displays typically elicit care and assistance in the real world and the lab. But in the psychology and neuroscience literature fearful expressions are commonly interpreted as "threat cues." The fearful ape hypothesis suggests that fearful expressions should be instead considered appeasement and vulnerability cues.

Language: en