Cultural learning has definitely been observed in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_culture

Ah yes, it can be quite fun chasing down heisenbugs like that, half sarcastically :)

> One is that math nerds at school insisted on intimidating for the win and I just hated it.

For me the worst part was the teachers that encouraged that behavior and did the same.

Could the conclusions generalize to other types of anxiety such as GAD or OCD?