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  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Systematic desensitization - Wikipedia

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    The first step is to identify the hierarchy of fears. The second step is to learn relaxation or coping techniques. Finally, the individual uses these techniques to manage their fear during a situation from the hierarchy. The third step is repeated for each level of the hierarchy, starting from the least fear-inducing situation.

  4. Exposure hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    An exposure hierarchy itself is a list of objects and situations that an individual fears or avoids that are graded or rank-ordered in their ability to elicit anxiety. The least anxiety-provoking situations are ordered at the bottom of the hierarchy while the most anxiety-provoking situations are at the top.

  5. Tetraphobia - Wikipedia

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    An elevator control panel in a residential apartment building in Shanghai with no floor numbered as the 4th The number 4 missing in a parking lot in Japan. Tetraphobia (from Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás) 'four' and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4.

  6. Four Fs (evolution) - Wikipedia

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    The list of the four activities appears to have been first introduced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in articles by psychologist Karl H. Pribram, with the fourth entry in the list being known by terms such as "sex" [2]: 11, 13 or occasionally "fornicating", [3]: 155 although he himself did not use the term "four Fs".

  7. Moore and Fears combine for 50 points as Oklahoma tops ... - AOL

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    Freshman Jeremiah Fears scored a season-high 26 points, Jalon Moore added 24 and Oklahoma held off No. Arizona 82-77 on Thursday in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis. Duke Miles made a high ...

  8. Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium.

  9. Mercury Goes Retrograde Before Thanksgiving. An Astrologer ...

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    On November 25, Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius. Astrologer Donna Page explains how it will affect your zodiac sign—and how to head off the chaos.