A review of studies reveals nature phobias affect up to 9% of people globally. Broader nature aversion threatens conservation ...

A new study challenges the longstanding belief that fear is primarily communicated through facial expressions, showing instead that context plays the dominant role in real-life fear recognition. By ...

The human mind harbors fears that go far beyond common anxieties about heights or spiders. Recent research has uncovered a ...

A phobia is defined by Harvard Health as “a persistent, excessive, unrealistic, fear of an object, person, animal, activity or situation.” A new study has analyzed the United States’s top phobia, both ...

Taylor Takla, a Ph.D. candidate in the translational neuroscience program in Wayne State University's School of Medicine, recently received a two-year, $96,812 F31 grant from the Eunice Kennedy ...

A new study shows lab mice become less anxious after living outdoors, even reversing existing fear in just one week.

An innovative study, to be published in Nature Communications on October 21, 2024, reveals the mechanism behind two seemingly contradictory effects of fear memories: the inability to forget yet the ...

Chapman University released its 10th consecutive study on fear in America toward the end of October, and the findings this year point to heightened anxiety and worry within the country. With 1,008 ...

An innovative study, to be published in Nature Communications on October 21, 2024, reveals the mechanism behind two seemingly contradictory effects of fear memories: the inability to forget yet the ...