The many faces of threat: An investigation of animal, interpersonal and intergroup threat

对个人安全的威胁可以采取多种伪装，草丛中的蛇，愤怒的邻居，或者在我们的现代世界中越来越多地，看起来不同的陌生人。本项目将调查我们应对这些威胁的方式，这些反应是否可以调整，以及是什么决定了事件的威胁性质。更好地了解我们如何应对实际或感知到的威胁，特别是涉及其他人的威胁，将有助于我们理解人类在我们区域和更广泛的环境中不断变化的环境中的行为。

Threat to personal safety can take a number of guises, a snake in the grass, an angry neighbour or, increasingly often in our modern world, a stranger who looks different. The present project will investigate the manner in which we respond to these threats, whether these responses can be modulated and what determines the threatening nature of an event. A better understanding of how we react to real or perceived threats, in particular those involving other humans, will aid our understanding of human behaviour in an ever faster changing environment, both in our region and more broadly.