Grossmann Tobias
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904,
Behav Brain Sci. 2023 May 8;46:e81. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002837.
The fearful ape hypothesis (FAH) presents an evolutionary-developmental framework stipulating that in the context of cooperative caregiving, unique to human great ape group life, heightened fearfulness was adaptive. This is because from early in human ontogeny fearfulness expressed and perceived enhanced care-based responding and cooperation with mothers and others. This response extends and refines the FAH by incorporating the commentaries' suggestions and additional lines of empirical work, providing a more comprehensive and nuanced version of the FAH. Specifically, it encourages and hopes to inspire cross-species and cross-cultural, longitudinal work elucidating evolutionary and developmental functions of fear in context. Beyond fear, it can be seen as a call for an evolutionary-developmental approach to affective science.
恐惧猿假说(FAH)提出了一个进化发展框架,规定在人类巨猿群体生活特有的合作照料背景下,增强的恐惧是适应性的。这是因为从人类个体发育早期开始,恐惧的表达和感知增强了基于照料的反应以及与母亲和他人的合作。通过纳入评论者的建议和其他实证研究线索,这一回应扩展并完善了恐惧猿假说,提供了一个更全面、更细致入微的恐惧猿假说版本。具体而言,它鼓励并希望激发跨物种、跨文化的纵向研究,以阐明恐惧在特定情境下的进化和发展功能。除了恐惧之外,它还可被视为对情感科学采用进化发展方法的呼吁。