snake fear

alternative snake-fear · alternative snakefear

1. uncountableA fear of snakes.

   All groups would demonstrate reductions in snake fear during treatment.

   1966, Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses, page 51

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   The present writer is inclined to think that cat-fear is analogous to snake-fear.

   1908, The Scrap Book, volume 5, page 556

   […] it is meaningful to consider differences between high and low snake fear groups in general, rather than considering each separate measure of fear individually.

   1970, Jean Tronick Barnett, Development of Children's Fear: The Relationship Between Three Systems of Fear Measurement, page 34

   There was no snake fear in infant primates (Lorenz 1971) or in human infants up to 2 years old; in humans caution appeared by age 3% and definite fear by age 4 (Jones & Jones 1928), while fear increased from age 4 to 6 (Morris & Morris 1965).

   1987, Isaac Marks, Fears, Phobias and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders

   His snakefear if anything was more unhealthy than healthy, carrying with it an almost uncontrollable tendency to freeze into a panic-stricken target.

   1998, James Jones, The Thin Red Line, page 52

   Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other primates. Humans and monkeys learn snake fear more easily than fear of most other stimuli through direct or vicarious conditioning (Ohman and Mineka, 2003).

   2010, Tigerpaper, volumes 37-38

   Synonyms: ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, snake-fright