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Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimes
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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 321062"><p><strong><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18162-toddlers-insensitive-to-fear-go-on-to-commit-crimes.html" target="_blank"><u>Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimes - New Scientist</u></a></strong></p><p>Even at the tender age of 3, children who will go on to be convicted of a crime are less likely to learn to link fear with a certain noise than those who don't. This may mean that an insensitivity to fear could be a driving force behind criminal behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>Adult criminals tend to be fearless, but whether this characteristic emerges before or after they commit a crime wasn't clear, says Adrian Raine, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 321062"] [B][URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18162-toddlers-insensitive-to-fear-go-on-to-commit-crimes.html"][U]Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimes - New Scientist[/U][/URL][/B] Even at the tender age of 3, children who will go on to be convicted of a crime are less likely to learn to link fear with a certain noise than those who don't. This may mean that an insensitivity to fear could be a driving force behind criminal behaviour. Adult criminals tend to be fearless, but whether this characteristic emerges before or after they commit a crime wasn't clear, says Adrian Raine, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. [/QUOTE]
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