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Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F21%3A43920742" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/21:43920742 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11310/21:10435866

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257726" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257726</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257726" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0257726</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

  • Original language description

    To investigate a specificity of spiders as a prototypical fear- and disgust-eliciting stimuli, we conducted an online experiment. The respondents rated images of 25 spiders, 12 non-spider chelicerates, and 10 other arthropods on a fear and disgust 7-point scale. The evaluation of 968 Central European respondents confirmed the specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods and supported the notion of spiders as a cognitive category. We delineated this category as covering extant spider species as well as some other chelicerates bearing a physical resemblance to spiders, mainly whip spiders and camel spiders. We suggested calling this category the spider-like cognitive category. We discussed evolutionary roots of the spider-like category and concluded that its roots should be sought in fear, with disgust being secondary of the two emotions. We suggested other chelicerates, e.g., scorpions, might have been important in formation and fixation of the spider-like category. Further, we investigated an effect of respondent’s sensitivity to a specific fear of spiders on evaluation of the stimuli. We found that suspected phobic respondents were in their rating nearly identical to those with only high fear of spiders and similar to those with only moderate fear of spiders. We concluded that results based on healthy respondents with elevated fear should also be considered relevant for arachnophobia research.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50103 - Cognitive sciences

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA19-07164S" target="_blank" >GA19-07164S: Aversive response to spiders and the underlying emotions</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    PLoS One

  • ISSN

    1932-6203

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    16

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    9

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    24

  • Pages from-to

    "e0257726"

  • UT code for WoS article

    000725694500060

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85115775683