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That's really curious, do you know where else this is the case? Other phobias?
by MichaelZuo 4y ago
That's really curious, do you know where else this is the case? Other phobias?
- jeroenhd 4y agoI'm no doctor, nor am I a psychologist, so I can't easily pick out good sources for this topic. All I remember is this particular story hitting the news and really resonating with me (mostly because I have an irrational reaction to spiders myself, though "fear" may not be the right term). There are 83 works on Google Scholar citing the paper I linked above: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=15254216166904174230 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1525421616690417423... I'm not qualified to judge these papers nor their journals, but some of them may serve as a jumping off point for your own research if you're interested! Some papers seem to revolve around general state-of-mind biases ("Human safety and risk management"), while others focus on more concrete links such as biases in perception of "interpersonal distance".