#fear

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Researchers trained mice to distinguish environments associated with danger and safety.
Brain activity patterns for those settings became more overlapping under fear.
The result may help guide research into fear generalization in anxiety and PTSD.

DT Editorial Team·Nov 3, 2026·via sciencedaily.com

Researchers at the University of Aveiro and the University of Brasilia studied whether snake physical characteristics relate to how people perceive them.
The findings, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that similar-looking snakes provoke similar reactions of fear, disgust and positive impressions.
Sandra C. Soares, senior author, said the work grew from a broader lab focus on how humans and other primates perceive evolutionarily relevant threats such as snakes.
The team emphasized that rapid visual detection of a snake differs from actually being afraid of it, motivating the question of what makes some snakes appear more threatening.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 30, 2026·via phys.org