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In this article, we describe the case of a girl who suffers from a phobia to repetitive patterns, known as trypophobia. This condition has not yet been recognised by diagnostic taxonomies such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
8 sty 2018 · You're one of around 16 percent of people who experience something called trypophobia - the irrational fear of holes. But, some scientists are now saying, maybe it's not a phobia after all. That's because, well, it might be rational - and rooted in disgust rather than fear.
Although few studies have been done on trypophobia, researchers hypothesize that it is the result of a biological revulsion that associates trypophobic shapes with danger or disease, and may therefore have an evolutionary basis.
29 lut 2024 · In the last decade, the behavioral sciences have described the phenomenon of trypophobia, which is the discomfort felt by some individuals when viewing images containing clusters of bumps or...
24 cze 2024 · Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain trypophobia, and both attribute a role to evolution: One is related to dangerous animals (Cole & Wilkins, 2013; Van Strien & Van der Peijl, 2018) and the other to the avoidance of contagious skin diseases (Imaizumi et al., 2016; Kupfer & Le, 2018).
16 lut 2024 · Four peer-reviewed article have now shown that trypophobia is weakly, 1 if at all, associated with general anxiety 15, 16 and general mental health outcomes. 17 Finally, for the seventh criterion, trypophobic images can create ‘significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning’.
4 sty 2024 · What causes trypophobia? The exact cause of trypophobia is unknown, as research in this area is limited. Various triggers of trypophobia have been identified, such as honeycombs, bubble wrap, or fruit seeds. Certain patterns, bumps, patterned animals, and imagery may also trigger trypophobic reactions. Researchers have postulated various ...
