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I'm pretty sure I read in the last couple of years an article which said researchers had identified genes which pre-desposed individuals to both fear of spiders and fear of snakes (separate genes). Anyone else come across this?-- Hontogaichiban ( talk) 02:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
HEY, IF YOU HAVE AN EXTREME FEAR OF SPIDERS, PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SOME RATHER FEARSOME DESCRIPTIONS OF THEM UP CLOSE
This article doesn’t describe what many people I know (and myself, to an extent, I have a mild fear of spiders, but I have a fascination with them that outweighs my fear) find scariest about spiders. Namely, close up looks at them. Most typically their faces are often described as highly fearsome. Their multiple scattered bulging black eyes and large fangs are a huge source of revulsion, probably more so for people I’d say than any physical feature mentioned in this article such as legs, and without doubt INFINITELY more so than any of the more logical justifications given he re such as venom would be in a country where these do not apply. This article mainly talks about why people may or may not be scared of the beasts themselves, if there may be evolutionary reasons relating to highly venomous arachnids in the areas in which humanity first emerged, or societal factors, where the idea spiders are scary becomes effectively a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, this does not explain the visceral reaction many people have to specifically close-up pictures (or sufficiently large examples, but that may be slightly more rational) of the things. -- StrexcorpEmployee ( talk) 13:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
The fear of Spiders and cob webs is called Aranophobia Arachnophobia is the fear of all Arachnids ie: scorpions,ants mites etc
The anon needs to discuss. Acidsetback ( talk) 20:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)