The infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects / Jeffrey Lockwood.
By: Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan.
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199930203 (e-book).Subject(s): Insect phobia | FearGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.85/225 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: the infestation begins -- The nature of fear and the fear of nature -- Evolutionary psychology: survival of the scaredest -- Learning to fear: little Miss Muffett's lesson -- A fly in our mental soup: how insects push our disgust buttons -- The maggoty mind: a natural history of disgust -- The terrible trio: imagining insects into our lives -- Treating the infested mind: exterminating entomophobia -- Overcoming fear and disgust for fun and profit: the professionals -- The infatuated mind: entomophilia as the human condition -- Entomapatheia: can't we just live and let live? -- Back to the real world: good night, sleep tight or maybe not -- Epilogue: insects as a psychological precipice.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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