Fear or disgust? The role of emotions in spider phobia and blood-injection-injury phobia

Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-122

  Çavuşoǧlu, Merve ^a   Dirik, Gülay ^b  

^a Metropolitan Municipality Home Care Services for Patient and Elderly   (Turkey)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood injury injection phobia; Disgust; Fear; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; EMOTION; FEAR; HUMAN; INJECTION; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLOOD; EMOTIONS; FEAR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SPIDERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79959207522     PISSN: 13002163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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