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fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls Teratophobia fear of giving birth to a monster [38] or a disfigured foetus [39] Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4: Thalassophobia: fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean: Thanatophobia: fear of dying, a synonym of death anxiety; not to be confused with necrophobia: Thermophobia
13: Fear Is Real is an American horror reality competition series which premiered on January 7, 2009. [1] [2] [3] It follows a group of 13 contestants as they are trying to survive in a setting inspired by horror movies. [4] [5] [6] On May 27, 2009, CW canceled the series after one season. [7]
A phobia is an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. [7] [8] [9] [1] Phobias typically result in a rapid onset of fear and are usually present for more than six months. [1]
In “The Flip Side of Fear”, we look at some common phobias, like sharks and flying, but also bats, germs and strangers. We tried to identify the origin of these fears and why they continue to exist when logic tells us they shouldn’t.
BuzzFeed works by judging their content on how viral it will become, operating in a "continuous feedback loop" where all of its articles and videos are used as input for its sophisticated data operation. [41] The site continues to test and track their custom content with an in-house team of data scientists and an external-facing "social dashboard".
False positive paradox: A test that is accurate the vast majority of the time could show you have a disease, but the probability that you actually have it could still be tiny. Grice's paradox: Shows that the exact meaning of statements involving conditionals and probabilities is more complicated than may be obvious on casual examination.
Oneirophobia (from Greek όνειρο (oneiro), meaning "dream", and φόβος (), meaning "fear") is the fear of dreams.It is discussed in The Dream Frontier, a book by Mark Blechner, a neuro-psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute.
For one, the quiz show seems eerily similar to real life television tournaments like Jeopardy! and the sister dynamic is a little too on point. Turns out, there are some true elements to the Quiz ...