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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2007 2(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/scan/nsm007
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Learning to fear what others have feared before

Kevin Ochsner

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
1190 Amsteradam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

E-mail: Kochsner@paradox.psych.columbia.edu

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Humans, like most organisms, are built to learn what may cause us harm so that we avoid it in the future. I learned the truth of this statement as a young boy when I decided to touch the burner of an electric stove just after it had been turned off. As I touched the burner I noticed a light illuminated on the stove panel, thereby learning to associate the panel light with the potential for a painful burn. For many weeks after my painful initiation to the ways of electric stoves the sight of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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