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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 ...
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Tobacco smoking has also been associated with the development and emergence of agoraphobia, often with panic disorder; it is uncertain how tobacco smoking results in anxiety-panic with or without agoraphobia symptoms, but the direct effects of nicotine dependence or the effects of tobacco smoke on breathing have been suggested as possible causes.
Ochlophobia ("Fear of Crowds") [1] and demophobia ("Fear of Unruly Mobs") are terms for types of social phobia or social anxiety disorder whose sufferers have a fear of crowds.
Analysing a number of recent aircraft accidents, the authors identified the negative impact of the startle response as causal or contributory in these accidents. The authors argued that fear resulting from threat, especially if life-threatening, [16] [17] prompted startle effects which had a serious negative impact on pilots' performances. The ...
The subjects preferred the music with the HFCs; No effect was detected on listeners in the study when only the ultrasonic [14] (frequencies higher than 24 kHz) portion of the test material was played for test subjects; the demonstrated effect was only present when comparing full-bandwidth to bandwidth-limited material.
Shaky camera, [1] shaky cam, [2] jerky camera, queasy cam, [3] run-and-gun [4] or free camera [4] is a cinematographic technique where stable-image techniques are purposely dispensed with shaking. It is a hand-held camera , or given the appearance of being hand-held, and in many cases shots are limited to what one photographer could have ...
Considerable research has been conducted into the causes of glossophobia, with a number of potential causes being suggested. One proposed explanation is that these anxieties are a specific symptom of social anxiety produced by fearfulness related to the fight-or-flight response, which is produced by a perceived threat; [2] this triggers an elevated defense reaction in the sympathetic nervous ...