Characteristics of individuals with fear of spiders

By G. Davey. 1991

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Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “rather than the fact that their parents have arachnophobia, even though studies show that people with arachnophobia are more likely to have family members who find spiders scary [33].”
Intersection of Disgust and Fear: Normative and Pathological Views (2006, background): “Davey, Forster, and Mayhew (1993) found the relationship between food-related disgust sensitivity and general fearfulness on the Fear Survey Schedule (Wolpe & Lang, 1964) was comparable in magnitude to the relationship between spider fear and general fearfulness (r .34 and .32, respectively). Additi”
Animal-related attitudes and activities in an urban population (2004, background): “For example, the aversion toward invertebrates may partly be explained by our tendency to avoid diseases, as some species of this animal order have been associated with contaminated materials (Davey 1992).”
Spiders at the cocktail party: An ancestral threat that surmounts inattentional blindness. (2015, background): “evolh The defining visual configuration of spiders appears to be the radiation of multiple segments from a central mass point with “legginess” being the most frequently reported frightening feature by spider-fearful individuals (Aronoff, Barclay, & Stevenson, 1988; Davey, 1992).”
"Disgusting" Animals: Primary School Children's Attitudes and Myths of Bats and Spiders (2008, background): “Fear from animals has been traditionally viewed as biological predisposition that associates humans with potentially dangerous animal with fearful consequences (Seligman, 1971) or, more recently, by the “diseaseavoidance” hypothesis (Davey, 1992, 1994, Davey et al., © 2008 Moment, Eurasia J. Math.”