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1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: the infestation begins -- The nature of fear and the fear of nature -- Evolutionary psychology: survival of the scaredest -- Learning to fear: little Miss Muffett's lesson -- A fly in our mental soup: how insects push our disgust buttons -- The maggoty mind: a natural history of disgust -- The terrible trio: imagining insects into our lives -- Treating the infested mind: exterminating entomophobia -- Overcoming fear and disgust for fun and profit: the professionals -- The infatuated mind: entomophilia as the human condition -- Entomapatheia: can't we just live and let live? -- Back to the real world: good night, sleep tight or maybe not -- Epilogue: insects as a psychological precipice. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Insect phobia.
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Fear.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. Infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013] xxi, 203 pages 9780199930197 (DLC) 2013005383 |
| ISBN |
9780199930197 (alk. paper) |
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9780199930203 (electronic bk.) |
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