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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Fear appeal is a term used in psychology, sociology and marketing.It generally describes a strategy for motivating people to take a particular action, endorse a particular policy, or buy a particular product, by arousing fear.
In Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Zeus arms Phobos with lightning and Deimos with thunder to frighten Typhon. [6] Later in the work, Phobos and Deimos act as Ares's charioteers to battle the god Dionysus during his war against the Indians .
The term gynophobia comes from the Greek γυνή – gunē, meaning "woman" [7] and φόβος – phobos, "fear". [8] The Oxford English Dictionary cites the term's earliest known use as an 1886 writing by physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [9]
"Daisy" advertisement. Daisy is a famous television commercial that aired in 1964 and was run by Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign.It begins with a little girl standing in a meadow, birds chirping in the background; she picks and clumsily counts the petals off of a daisy.
Skip the loaf of pre-sliced white bread during your next grocery trip. “There is minimal nutritional value in processed white bread (the one that comes in packages),” says Dr. Lopez-Jimenez.
Poster for the American psychological horror film The Black Cat (1934). Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience.
Artistic depiction of a child afraid of the dark and frightened by their shadow. (Linocut by the artist Ethel Spowers (1927).)Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among toddlers, children and, to a varying degree, adults.