Phobias come in many different forms. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Aviophobia is the fear of flying. Felinophobia is the fear of cats. Myxophobia is the fear of slime. Xyrophobia is the fear ...

Phobias tend to cluster around common themes ... exposures where people do things that are either out of the normal or silly. So that people get exposed to the fact that they can feel embarrassed ...

Phobias - the word is Greek for 'fear' - have always been part of the human condition, with some people harbouring irrational fears of things that cannot or are unlikely to hurt them. Small ...

and the associations they have with the source of their phobias are being challenged (with "cute" spiders, calming views of cockpits, and silly antics of a snake). TikTok's algorithm could be ...