I have read an article entitled The shape of fear. Why spiders scares us so much: Humans are hardwired to fear their angular legs and unpredictability by Tamara Cohen from the website www.dailymail.co.uk
When we are in the comfort room and we saw a spider in the wall, the fear initiates. Even though there's a very small number of spiders that are poisonous, it is calculated that many of us in the world are arachnophobics. Scientists believe that we are scared of this because of their physical appearance and how they move. A psychology professor named Jon May said that their legs, colors and the certainty that they move unpredictable are the reasons why we are afraid to them. May said that studies prove that people are likely to dislike an angular shape and they would like more the curved ones. They also want the creatures that they know they understand. Professor May also added that like in many other phobias, when this establish in our mind, seeing spiders in the picture might also scares us. But why do we like butterflies than spiders? Maybe because of the color. Butterflies has a positive and spiders have a negative like the black ones. We are also quick to detect the things that are moving in the corner and our eyes immediately detect it. When we have arachnophobia, we might tell to someone that we saw a big spider even it is not and we will also tell them that we saw a spider crawling to someone's mouth which spider doesn't actually do. This fear are likely to start when we are children and if we experience it to our home.
"Arachnophobics can deal with their fears by trying to sympathise with the insects and learn about them." says Cohen. This is true because if we know what type of spider it is or what is the behavior of it, maybe it will lessen our fear to them because we know what to expect or not already.
The second article I've read entitled Why Are We Afraid Of Spiders? by Chris Buddle from the website www.iflscience.com.
There are many people here in our world who have arachnophobes, but do they know why they fear them? Can they take action to this fear? Psychologists thinks that a reason why a person is afraid of spider (arachnids) is because of the direct encountered with them. This view of arachnophobia is also known as the "conditioning" A guy named Graham Davey did a research to know more about this view. He conducted a survey to 118 students about the arachnophobia. 75% of the students that has been reviewed by Davey were lightly and badly afraid of spiders and most of it were female. This has effect to their family too because those students said that they have the same fear with their family member. The suprising thing that Davey found out is that arachnophobia was not the result of the spider trauma, which means that there's no support to the conditioning view. Then why are we scared of to this spiders? Yes, it is sure that the one reason why we're afraid of spiders is because they might bite us. But Davey look at the matter and the mainly cause of why we are frightened about it is because of their movements and their scary legs. He also said that for those who are afraid of spiders, just share or browse a picture of spiders so they would be more less scared to it because people can't easily identify it consciously.
Buddle said to his article that "Arachnophobia is inheritable" because there's a possibility that you have the same fear with your mother or father. So this means that arachnophobia is here to stay with us but it doesn't mean that we can lessen it.
In my conclusion, it would be better if we experience it more and we browse some images it so that we can know what to expect or not. Spiders are really terrifying, but it doesn't mean that were going to stay of being afraid of spiders, we must take action and do something about it.
The second article I've read entitled Why Are We Afraid Of Spiders? by Chris Buddle from the website www.iflscience.com.
There are many people here in our world who have arachnophobes, but do they know why they fear them? Can they take action to this fear? Psychologists thinks that a reason why a person is afraid of spider (arachnids) is because of the direct encountered with them. This view of arachnophobia is also known as the "conditioning" A guy named Graham Davey did a research to know more about this view. He conducted a survey to 118 students about the arachnophobia. 75% of the students that has been reviewed by Davey were lightly and badly afraid of spiders and most of it were female. This has effect to their family too because those students said that they have the same fear with their family member. The suprising thing that Davey found out is that arachnophobia was not the result of the spider trauma, which means that there's no support to the conditioning view. Then why are we scared of to this spiders? Yes, it is sure that the one reason why we're afraid of spiders is because they might bite us. But Davey look at the matter and the mainly cause of why we are frightened about it is because of their movements and their scary legs. He also said that for those who are afraid of spiders, just share or browse a picture of spiders so they would be more less scared to it because people can't easily identify it consciously.
Buddle said to his article that "Arachnophobia is inheritable" because there's a possibility that you have the same fear with your mother or father. So this means that arachnophobia is here to stay with us but it doesn't mean that we can lessen it.
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