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Evolutionary psychology

the principle that defenses such as anxiety, fever or vomiting are set to trigger often because false alarms are cheap compared with missed threats.

In evolutionary psychology, smoke detector principle refers to the principle that defenses such as anxiety, fever or vomiting are set to trigger often because false alarms are cheap compared with missed threats. This meaning comes from Nesse (2005) in Evolution and Human Behavior.[1]

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Nesse, R. M. (2005). Natural selection and the regulation of defenses. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.002

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