Fears, phobias and disgust related to bees and other arthropods
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Fears and Phobias
only given a rough idea of their actual numbers in the general community. They can also cause tremendous distress and disability to people over many years. Nevertheless, there has been a tendency in the past to treat them mainly as medical curiosities and few probics benefited much from the attentions of doctors. Even recent editions of standard psychiatric textbooks have dealt very inadequatel...
متن کاملDisgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias.
Disgust has been implicated in the onset and maintenance of blood-injection-injury (BII) and animal phobias. Research suggests that people with these phobias are characterized by an elevated sensitivity to disgust-evoking stimuli separate from their phobic concerns. The disgust response has been described as the rejection of potential contaminants. Disgust-motivated avoidance of phobic stimuli ...
متن کاملStress-induced recovery of fears and phobias.
Accounts of human fears and phobias based on current conditioning models using data from adults are examined and found wanting. Instead, the characteristics of human phobias resemble the kind of learning found during the amnesic period of infancy. As certain neural systems mature, conditioning begins to exhibit adult characteristics: context dependency, sharp generalization, and rapid extinctio...
متن کاملPanic. Facing Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety
biological data can be reduced to manageable mathematical statements. In some cases these equations describe reality with surprising accuracy. For example, analysis of mammalian bone structure reveals that small skeletons are not just scale models of skeletons of larger related species. The bones of large mammals are relatively thicker; in fact, bone thickness varies as the length raised to the...
متن کاملAnxiety sensitivity and disgust sensitivity interact to predict contamination fears
Research has begun to demonstrate that contamination fears are comprised of both fear and disgust, but whether these emotions interact and how they may interact within the domain of contamination fears has not been researched. The present study investigated whether the fear of aversive sensations (i.e., anxiety sensitivity) interacts with the propensity to respond with disgust (i.e., disgust se...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advanced Studies in Medical Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1314-7684
DOI: 10.12988/asms.2013.13011