What is so frightening about spiders? Self-rated and self-disclosed impact of different characteristics and associations with phobia symptoms
Spider phobia is a common and impairing mental disorder, yet little is known about what characteristics of spiders that spider phobic individuals find frightening. Using screening data from a clinical trial, we explored which characteristics that spiderâfearful individuals (n = 194) rated as having the greatest impact on fear, used factor analysis to group specific characteristics, and … Read more