Jeremy Beus

And lo and behold, the children in the first group continued to have negative feelings about snakes.

And they sort of figured out that the children...

not only don't think of the snakes as animals, like non-humans, but they don't even consider the snake the same as other animals.

It was like a completely different creature.

So they were separating all other non-snake animals with snakes.

Snakes were very, very different, and the kids were afraid of them or had these negative feelings.

Whereas the flip side was true on these children who are reading the books that talked about Sally the snake or Samantha the snake and that she had feelings and she was a she.

Sarah Shelley.

And Sarah Shelley, who knows.

And they basically felt that the snakes, they anthropomorphized these snakes.

They made the children believe truly that the snake is a positive creature.

And might actually be close to human as much as to animals.

So there you go.

Pretty simple.

Yeah, that's exactly what they figured out.

So they had realized that for whatever reason, all across different societies, and there's stories and there's legends about snakes in all different kind of cultures and religions, and the snakes always seem to be the bad guy or the bad it.

Yeah, exactly.

It's just an apple.

Or a pomegranate.

I think they determined it was actually a pomegranate.