Michael Cook by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
A researcher who tested observational conditioning of fear in rhesus monkeys. Edited videos paired a demonstrator’s fear behavior with different objects, allowing acquired avoidance of fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant objects to be compared. The 1989 author record anchors this identity; the experiment tests selective social learning rather than mere exposure to an object.[ref]

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