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Measuring Fear Evoked by the Scariest Animal: The Effect of Gender, Age, Education, and Disgust on Spider Phobia

2021-08-20

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<h4>Background: </h4> Although tiny in size and mostly harmless, spiders evoke exceptional fear in a significant part of the population and arachnophobia belongs to one of the most common anxiety disorders with prevalence 2.7-6.1%. Two standardized psychometrics have been widely used to reliably assess the emotional and cognitive component of spider fear, the Spider Questionnaire (SPQ) and Spider Phobia Beliefs Qu...

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Literature Corpus work: 0bd342b2-4f96-5cdc-978c-3aeb64daf8e8
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-827887/v1

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