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Where does our fear of sharks come from?

2022-12-02 19:10:35Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Where does our fear of sharks come from?
Kait Hanson swimming with sharks in 2018

 

Sharks, especially great whites, instilled more fear in people after the release of the movie Jaws in the summer of 1975. The film built the plot on a giant shark that terrorizes a coastal community and was scary enough to terrify all the people. In many other films, sharks have been portrayed as antagonists.

Where does our fear of sharks come from?

David Ropeik, fear perception consultant and author of How Dangerous Is It Really? says that people don't have to be afraid of sharks. But fear does not always match the facts.

The fear of sharks is known as galeophobia, and to put it briefly, predatory fish are terrifying: they have sharp teeth, they feel blood and tear them apart in seconds.

There are more than 465 species of sharks, ranging from 17 centimeters to 50 meters long. Many of them eat fish, molluscs, plankton, marine mammals and other sharks – in short, we are not on the menu.

People are more likely to be mauled to death by a cow than to perish in the jaws of a shark. But fear does not necessarily match the facts, and the fear of sharks is related more to an emotional state than to reality.

Fear is about not having the situation under control. People are terrified of the idea of ​​facing something that is stronger than them. According to experts, the fear is more related to the nature of the experience (the sea, breathing hard, you can't swim fast, you don't fight back easily, you have a hard time defending yourself) than the agent (the shark).

Where did this fear come from?

Fear is not necessarily something a person is born with, but something that is developed over time. Babies aren't afraid of snakes and heights, but adults are. As we age, the brain becomes more sensitive to fear stimuli.

In ancient times, people did not know which animals were a threat to them and this is an important fact that kept them alive. They got used to fear, adapted and protected themselves. Experts point out that humans are more prone to fear biological things, like animals for example, and this is a fear inherited from early ages.

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