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23 paź 2017 · What is it about spiders and their eight arched legs – sometimes fat and furry, or thin like dark needles – crawling close, ever closer to our skin, that provokes such fear and outright revulsion?
15 lis 2021 · Spiders are mostly harmless, yet they often trigger high levels of both fear and disgust, and arachnophobia (the phobia of spiders) ranks among the most common specific animal phobias.
28 lis 2023 · We also found that the reaction time increased systematically with increasing subjective fear of spiders only when using spiders (and crabs to some extent) but not snakes and scorpions as...
1 paź 2021 · Arachnophobia is a fear of arachnids — a group of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites. From the Greek word arachne, meaning spider, and phobos, meaning fear,...
8 maj 2014 · Psychologists believe that one reason why people fear spiders is because of some direct experience with the arachnids instilled that fear in them. This is known as the “conditioning” view of...
The problem with this theory is that arachnophobia is much more common in Europe than in Africa or South America. An alternative hypothesis is that spiders mistakenly became associated with disease in the Middle Ages – particularly with the Black Death.
26 paź 2017 · If we're born with an innate feeling of stress toward spiders and snakes, that doesn't account for why some people grow up to have a crippling fear of these creatures while others keep them as...
