Surely about trade-offs: if you panic too early and without cause you waste calories & time. There are opportunity costs to panicking, & also effects cognition so if employed at wrong time can actually be a threat to survival.
You say 'panic' like it it isn't an adaptive emotion that evolved because it saved millions of our ancestors from imminent threats to survival, while their less panic-prone, more oblivious rivals went extinct.
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The cost/benefit/risk calculus has been well analyzed with the 'smoke detector principle' in evolutionary psychologyhttps://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2019/1/1/5229271 …
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Discouraging panic among one's competitors for resources might also be an effective adaptation for survival :)
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Tweet of the day. Indeed.
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How would you test this hypothesis?
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You're develop a field called evolutionary psychology that publishes hundreds of empirical papers on the evolutionary origins & adaptive functions of fear. Oh wait already been doing that for 30 years.
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But that adaptive evolutionary behavior must be balanced by the more recent human development of our unique ability to reason.
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At first glance I thought this said "picnic" and I was like o yes I love picnics
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what about the ants tho
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