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Thirty-seven women ages 18 to 21 were first screened into two groups: fearful of dogs and non-fearful of dogs. [14] Next, each woman was given a questionnaire which asked if she had ever had a frightening or painful confrontation with a dog, what her expectation was upon encountering a dog (pain, fear, etc.), and subjectively, what was the ...
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 ...
Caligynephobia: fear of beautiful women 58. Carcinophobia: fear of cancer 59. Cardiophobia: fear of the heart 60. Carnophobia: fear of meat 61. Catagelophobia: fear of being ridiculed ...
ZooPhobia is an American webcomic originally published in 2012 by Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano, from which she later loosely adapted characters and plotlines for her animated musical television series Hazbin Hotel. [2] [3] [1] It follows a young woman named Cameron, who travels to an interspecies sanctuary named Safe Haven.
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The peak incidence for specific phobias amongst females occurs during reproduction and childrearing, possibly reflecting an evolutionary advantage. There is an additional peak in incidence, reaching nearly 1% per year, during old age in both men and women, possibly reflective of newly occurring physical conditions or adverse life events. [1]