They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees. And although they were only figments of a writer's imagination, the fictional adventurers helped provide new insight into how humans, especially men, gauge the threat of a potential adversary. Those reading the stories—dozens of residents of a small village on the Fijian island of Yasawa—judged the characters to be risk-seekers.
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