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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 ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. ... Fear of children; Fear of commitment; Fear of ghosts; Fear of medical procedures; Fear of needles; Fear of trains;
Through observational learning, humans can learn to fear potentially dangerous objects—a reaction observed in other primates. [21] A study on non-human primates, showed that the primates learned to fear snakes at a fast rate after watching parents' fearful reactions. [21]
2024 has been a year that has truly shown the power that social media has in catapulting people from all walks of life to stardom and fame, as well as infamy and ridicule. From a 21-year-old ...
Fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Per Biblical prophesy, the "Number of The Beast", signifies the return of the Devil and Antichrist. Also called the "Mark of the Beast", wherein all humans will have it on their forehead or hand. Friday the 13th (in Spain, Greece, and Georgia: Tuesday the 13th) [citation needed]
The Transamerica survey that Johnson pointed to found that the second greatest fear among Gen X is the fear that “Social Security will be reduced or cease to exist in the future,” with 49% of ...
In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population and society as a result of rumors and fear. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In medicine, the term is used to describe the spontaneous manifestation—or production of chemicals in the body—of the same or ...
Fear in humans can occur in response to a present stimulus or anticipation of a future threat. Fear is involved in some mental disorders, particularly anxiety disorders. In humans and other animals, fear is modulated by cognition and learning. Thus, fear is judged as rational and appropriate, or irrational and inappropriate.