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A military dog barking. Cynophobia [a] (from the Greek: κύων kýōn "dog" and φόβος phóbos "fear") is the fear of dogs and canines in general. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype "animal phobias". [1]
Dog noise phobia, along with dog noise anxiety, are terms sometimes used by dog owners and veterinarians to describe canine fear of, and the corresponding stress responses to, loud noises. Noise-related phobia are common in dogs, and may be triggered by fireworks, thunderstorms, gunshots, and even bird noises.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Dog behavior is the internally coordinated responses of individuals or groups of ... Associated stimuli may also come to trigger the symptoms of the phobia or anxiety ...
Image credits: Fuzzy_Divide_3661 Some people fear all kinds of dogs the same, often due to cynophobia. While dogs are the most popular pet, believed to be man’s best friend, not everyone is ...
The fear of dogs is a natural emotion, because dogs are potentially dangerous. The abnormal fear of dogs, i.e., a specific phobia related to dogs, is called cynophobia. The fear of potentially dangerous things is not a natural emotion. Fire is potentially dangerous, if someone lights a match it shouldn't cause anxiety.
To tell you the truth--I had a severe phobia of dogs! Until about the age of nine, one of my worst imaginable fears was interacting with a dog, even a tiny one. Unfortunately for little me, my ...
Specific phobias are one class of mental disorder often treated via systematic desensitization. When persons experience such phobias (for example fears of heights, dogs, snakes, closed spaces, etc.), they tend to avoid the feared stimuli; this avoidance, in turn, can temporarily reduce anxiety but is not necessarily an adaptive way of coping ...