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arachnophobia

Known as: fear of spiders, phobias spiders, spider fear 
National Institutes of Health

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Phobic anxiety disorder

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Approach behavior can mitigate predominately univalent negative attitudes: evidence regarding insects and spiders.
Three experiments tested whether disliking of predominately univalently negative attitude objects could be reduced by a procedure… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Spider Fear
A greater understanding of implicit cognition can provide important information regarding the etiology and maintenance of… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Development and Initial Validation of the Medical Fear Survey–Short Version
The present investigation employs item response theory (IRT) to develop an abbreviated Medical Fear Survey (MFS). Application of… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Disgust sensitivity and emotion regulation potentiate the effect of disgust propensity on spider fear, blood-injection-injury fear, and contamination fear.
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised: psychometric properties and specificity in relation to anxiety disorder symptoms.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Time course of attentional bias for fear-relevant pictures in spider-fearful individuals.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Blood-injection-injury phobia and fear of spiders: Domain specific individual differences in disgust sensitivity
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Cognitive bias in spider fear and control children: assessment of emotional interference by a card format and a single-trial format of the stroop task.
The aim of the study was to clarify whether fear in children is related to a distorted cognitive processing of fear-related… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Common childhood fears and their origins.
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
A comparison of two spider fear questionnaires.
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