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Focused on Phobias, but is Wonderful Image of Jumping Spider :) [View all]
A recent study...
...To try and understand why some people are disgusted by and afraid of spiders, a new study tracked people's eye movements to see what frightens them the most...
...The team recruited 118 undergraduate students for the study and had them focus on image pairs that featured, in the first part of the experiment: “(1) spider versus butterfly, (2) spider versus insect, (3) spider eyes versus insect eyes, (4) spider versus non-spider arachnid, and (5) spider versus myriapod (centipedes and millipedes)...”
https://www.iflscience.com/scared-of-spiders-your-eye-movements-reveal-youd-rather-focus-on-other-insects-82737
This Arachnid is a Rare Jewel
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