Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much.

To investigate a specificity of spiders as a prototypical fear- and disgust-eliciting stimuli, we conducted an online experiment. The respondents rated images of 25 spiders, 12 non-spider chelicerates, and 10 other arthropods on a fear and disgust 7-point scale. The evaluation of 968 Central Europea...

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Main Authors: Eva Landová, Markéta Janovcová, Iveta Štolhoferová, Silvie Rádlová, Petra Frýdlová, Kristýna Sedláčková, Daniel Frynta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257726