Fear of eyes: triadic relation among social anxiety, trypophobia, and discomfort for eye cluster

Imagine you are being gazed at by multiple individuals simultaneously. Is the provoked anxiety a learned social-specific response or related to a pathological disorder known as trypophobia? A previous study revealed that spectral properties of images induced aversive reactions in observers with tryp...

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Main Authors: Kengo Chaya, Yuting Xue, Yusuke Uto, Qirui Yao, Yuki Yamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1942.pdf