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Clinical psychology

the proposal that humans are evolutionarily prepared to acquire fears of certain ancestral threats more readily, and more durably, than fears of other objects.

In clinical psychology, preparedness theory of phobias refers to the proposal that humans are evolutionarily prepared to acquire fears of certain ancestral threats more readily, and more durably, than fears of other objects. This meaning comes from Seligman (1971) in Behavior Therapy.[1]

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  1. Seligman, M. E. P. (1971). Phobias and preparedness. Behavior Therapy, 2(3), 307-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7894(71)80064-3

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