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How do children learn to detect snakes, spiders and other dangerous things?

  • Written by Vanessa LoBue, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University Newark
imageHow do kids develop fears?Craig Bradshaw, CC BY-NC-ND

As summer approaches, children will be spending less time in the classroom and more time navigating the outside world. Outdoor activities are a fun and exciting part of summertime, but they can also filled with natural (and unnatural) dangers, like fast-moving cars, steep cliffs, crashing waves...

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