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Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia [1] or chrematophobia [2]) is a persistent, irrational fear of, or aversion to, colors and is usually a conditioned response. [2] While actual clinical phobias to color are rare, colors can elicit hormonal responses and psychological reactions.
fear of youth; inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people Equinophobia: fear of horses: Ergophobia, ergasiophobia fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating Erotophobia: fear of sexual love or sexual abuse: Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia fear of the color red, or fear of blushing ...
Another name for injury phobia is traumatophobia, from Greek τραῦμα (trauma), "wound, hurt" [2] and φόβος (phobos), "fear". [3] It is associated with BII (Blood-Injury-Injection) Phobia. Sufferers exhibit irrational or excessive anxiety and a desire to avoid specific feared objects and situations, to the point of avoiding ...
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Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...
Color psychology is the study of colors and hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colors have qualities that may cause certain emotions in people. [1] How color influences individuals may differ depending on age, gender, and culture. [2]
Masklophobia (sometimes referred to as maskaphobia) is a specific phobia used to classify a general and in some cases an irrational fear of masks, people in costumed clothing and mascots which is common among toddlers and young children. The common cause for masklophobia is not known.
Fear of children, or occasionally called paedophobia, is fear triggered by the presence or thinking of children or infants. It is an emotional state of fear, disdain, aversion, or prejudice toward children. Paedophobia is in some usages identical to ephebiphobia. [1] [2] [3]