High spider-fearful and low spider-fearful individuals differentially perceive the speed of approaching, but not receding, spider stimuli

J Basanovic, L Dean, JH Riskind… - Cognitive Therapy and …, 2019 - Springer
… There is also evidence that spider-fearful people may have … fast, or low-fearful individuals
to perceive the spider as … stimulus is associated with elevated threat (eg animal fears), …

Attentional, emotional, and behavioral response toward spiders, scorpions, crabs, and snakes provides no evidence for generalized fear between spiders and …

E Landová, I Štolhoferová, B Vobrubová, J Polák… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
… Ironically, most spiders do not present a serious threat, so the … Eye movements were
recorded using the EyeLink1000 eye-… To avoid false-positive effects because of testing multiple …

To approach or to avoid: The role of ambivalent motivation in attentional biases to threat and spider fear

M Xu, K Rowe, C Purdon - Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2021 - Springer
… An emerging body of evidence suggests that visual attention to threat … A unique strength of
this study was that eye movements were … This can be easily done by asking clients to rate their …

You see what you avoid: Fear of spiders and avoidance are associated with predominance of spiders in binocular rivalry

UWD Müller, ABM Gerdes, GW Alpers - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
… This research replicates evidence that pictures of spiders … ) the corresponding key as soon
as they detected anything and … out of individuals with variable degrees of fear of spiders (low …

Out of control: The role of spider movement and intolerance of uncertainty in spider fear

M Grill, A Haberkamp - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… We also informed participants that they should avoid looking away from … the transdiagnostic
risk factor intolerance of uncertainty (IU). … evidence that spider-fearful individuals perceive the …

[HTML][HTML] Grab it or not? Measuring avoidance of spiders with touchscreen-based hand movements

M Rinck, A Dapprich, A Lender, S Kahveci… - Journal of Behavior …, 2021 - Elsevier
evidence for the automatic avoidance of spiders: Movements … indeed be faster to detect a
threat stimulus, but then be slower to … this would be by also tracking eye movements, in order to …

Cue conditioning using a virtual spider discriminates between high and low spider fearful individuals

G Mertens, P Wagensveld, IM Engelhard - Computers in Human Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
… female participants were able to participate. Participants were … be avoided when we could
precisely identify people at risk of … Our results support the evidence for VR as a promising tool …

Spider vs. guns: expectancy and attention biases to phylogenetic threat do not extend to ontogenetic threat

E Abado, T Aue, H Okon-Singer - Frontiers in psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… We examined whether unselected participants react faster to guns/spiders thanevidence
and reviews suggest that humans are not predisposed to fear and avoid stimuli such as spiders

What makes spiders frightening and disgusting to people?

M Zvaríková, P Prokop, M Zvarik, Z Ježová… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… occur when the animal is threatened. The elevated body hair … believe that everyone can avoid
killing spiders in their households, … , we have provided some evidence that unattractive (ie, …

Facing your fear in immersive virtual reality: Avoidance behavior in specific phobia

FP Binder, D Pöhlchen, P Zwanzger… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… through announcements for people with fear of spiders and … never avoided the spider, and
14, if they always avoided the spider. … Interestingly, the phobics touched the spider much faster