Substantial evidence indicates that women report greater fear and are more likely to develop
anxiety disorders than men. Women's greater vulnerability for anxiety disorders can be partly …

A number of health and agricultural organizations have been encouraging Westerners to
integrate insects into their diet, without success. Appealing to consumer's reason and …

Disgust is a powerful human emotion that has been little studied until recently. Current
theories do not coherently explain the purpose of disgust, nor why a wide range of stimuli …

Anthropologists have long puzzled over why certain objects and activities are avoided,
reviled, or proscribed in many cultures. Numerous theories have been proposed, but as …

While negative perceptions of insects and other terrestrial arthropods (hereafter referred to
collectively as 'insects') are widespread around the world, the underlying causes of this …

Seit dem ersten Erscheinen von „Kind und Natur “im Jahre 1994 hat sich die nationale und
auch internationale Forschung auf diesem Gebiet sehr entwickelt und ist kaum noch zu …

Two recent papers on the topic of emotions and psychopathology testify to the rapidly
growing body of literature concerned with the role of emotions in abnormal development and …

The new synthesis about disgust is that it is a system that evolved to motivate infectious
disease avoidance. There are vital practical and intellectual reasons why we need to …

It can be creepy to notice that something human-looking is not real. But can sensitivity to this
phenomenon, known as the uncanny valley, be predicted from superficially unrelated traits …

Having pets at home provides various social, health, and educational benefits to children.
The question of how keeping pets at home affects the attitudes of children toward wild …