>>138906>I've read about a studySorry, bro. Not buying it. I come from a culture which regularly eats spiders. Several American Indian tribes see spiders as good luck. This is a distinctly European thing.
My problem with evolutionary psychology can be summed up with this quote from your article:
>The test subjects, many of them psychology students at the Karolinska Institute, were seated in a soundproof chamber in front of a screen on which the researchers presented a slideshow of pictures. The 'psychologist' takes a small, homogenous, sample, the vast majority of whom were raised in the same cultural environment, and then extrapolates this for the entire human race. He didn't find an arachnophobia gene. He said "Well, a lot of my students are scared of spiders, so I guess everyone else is too" - overlooking the aforementioned cultures which aren't scared of spiders, the fact that, outside of our Western cultures, spiders are seen as good luck, or even edible. It's like saying we're afraid of bugs because some bugs carry disease. But this doesn't explain why so many non-Anglo, non-European cultures are so willing to eat them.
