Fear is a natural and normal human experience. We all feel it from time to time, and there are situations when we rely on fear to keep us out of trouble. “Fear is healthy and adaptive,” says Thompson ...

Phobias come in many forms: Some people fear spiders while others fear flying on a plane. But the one thing they all have in common is that they're irrational, according to one phobia specialist. "A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A clinical psychologist unpacks the difference between fears and phobias. (Getty Creative stock photo) (LaylaBird via Getty Images ...

Dental phobia (DP) is defined as a specific phobia, which is the fear or anxiety circumscribed to a particular situation or object in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth ...

Chemophobia treats chemistry itself as contamination while ignoring toxicology’s most basic principle: the dose makes the ...

Whether it’s the neighborhood dog or being alone in the dark, all of us have fears in our lives. And fears are quite normal, says Simon A. Rego, PsyD. “Fear is healthy. It gives you an evolutionary ...

And, similar to other phobia-related research, it was found that coulrophobia decreases with age. But the study produced some interesting results. Contrary to what you would expect, having a negative ...

This was no monotone metaphor, either. The phobia in hydrophobia was not just about fear. It pictured American slavery as a vicious, inhuman, rampaging beast, surrendered to a furious insanity. An ...

Fear of clusters of holes and cracks, called trypophobia, may be evolutionary in origin. But as details are shared, it is becoming a social contagion. By Chrissie Giles Julia was around 11 years old ...