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Fear and Horror

1965 12 min
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The capacity for irrational fears increases with intelligence, being characteristic of the higher animals and people rather than of lower animals, and of older rather than of younger subjects. In this film Dr. D.O. Hebb proposes that emotion is a direct function of intelligence.

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The capacity for irrational fears increases with intelligence, being characteristic of the higher animals and people rather than of lower animals, and of older rather than of younger subjects. In this film Dr. D.O. Hebb proposes that emotion is a direct function of intelligence.

Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • director
    Arthur Lipsett
  • producer
    Joseph Koenig
  • consultant
    D.O. Hebb

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