The Origins of Specific Phobias: Influential Theories and Current Perspectives

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Health benefits of nature experience: Psychological, social and cultural processes (2011, result): “Despite much circumstantial evidence, the biophilia hypothesis seems to be lacking in convincing support, in contrast to bi phobia, for which support comes from many well-controlled experiments (see Ulrich 1993; Öhman and Mineka 2001; for a more critical view, see Coelho and Purkis, 2009).”
What we fear most: A developmental advantage for threat-relevant stimuli (2013, background): “Such evolutionary stimuli are difficult to identify and even more difficult to test empirically because this type of identification requires assumptions about what was safe and what was dangerous in our evolutionary past (Coelho & Purkis, 2009; Kleinknecht, 2002; McNally, 2002).”