Is disgust more resistant to extinction than fear? A meta-analytic review of laboratory paradigms

BJ Mitchell, KG Coifman, BO Olatunji - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Disgust can be acquired via evaluative conditioning; a process by which a neutral stimulus
(conditioned stimulus; CS) comes to be evaluated as disgusting due to its pairing with an …

“Food made with edible insects”: Exploring the social representation of entomophagy where it is unfamiliar

A Bisconsin-Júnior, H Rodrigues, JH Behrens… - Appetite, 2022 - Elsevier
Insects have attracted much attention as a novel food source because of their environmental
and nutritional advantages. In Latin America, some traditional groups consume insects; but …

Do spiders ride on the fear of scorpions? A cross-cultural eye tracking study

V Rudolfová, I Štolhoferová, HSA Elmi, S Rádlová… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In animal phobia research, one of the most attractive topics has been
arachnophobia—the specific phobia of spiders. In this study, we explore the apparent …

Animals evoking fear in the cradle of humankind: snakes, scorpions, and large carnivores

D Frynta, HSA Elmi, K Rexová, M Janovcová… - The Science of …, 2023 - Springer
Theories explain the presence of fears and specific phobias elicited by animals in
contemporary WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations …

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
Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex
response might have been formed throughout human evolution. Ironically, most spiders do …

Emotions triggered by live arthropods shed light on spider phobia

D Frynta, M Janovcová, I Štolhoferová, Š Peléšková… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Spiders are mostly harmless, yet they often trigger high levels of both fear and disgust, and
arachnophobia (the phobia of spiders) ranks among the most common specific animal …

The fear of spiders: perceptual features assessed in augmented reality

S Frumento, P Frumento, M Laurino… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Persons with specific phobias typically generalize the dangerousness of the
phobic animal to all members of its species, possibly as a result of malfunctioning brain …

Are vipers prototypic fear-evoking snakes? A cross-cultural comparison of Somalis and Czechs

D Frynta, HSA Elmi, M Janovcová, V Rudolfová… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Snakes are known as highly fear-evoking animals, eliciting preferential attention and fast
detection in humans. We examined the human fear response to snakes in the context of both …

Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year

C Colonnesi, EA Salvadori, FJ Oort, DS Messinger - Infancy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Infants' use of pointing gestures to direct and share attention develops during the first 2
years of life. Shyness, defined as an approach‐avoidance motivational conflict during social …

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
Introduction Attention bias plays an important role in specific fears and phobias. Previous
studies revealed that a-priori expectancies affect attention toward neutral stimuli but not …