Spiders have long been the go-to bad guys in fantasy media, from the Lord Of The Rings' monstrous Shelob to the numerous ...

A woman with a crippling fear of spiders sleeps in a tent on her bed – to protect her from creepy crawlies. Estella Kyriacou, 25, grew up terrified of arachnids and was horrified when she saw ...

Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is one of the most common phobias – even for those without a full-blown fear, these eight-legged beasties still give plenty of people the creeps. But before ...

As novel as this method might be, it doesn't appear to work all that effectively as the TikTok user joked that "half of them ...

Exposing myself to spiders I met on my porch, listening to guided hypnosis sessions on YouTube, and even trying real-life hypnotherapy sessions to "cure" my fear hadn't worked. But this time ...

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people suffering from arachnophobia -- the fear of spiders -- are physically and/or psychologically impaired by it. "To be defined as a phobia, the fear must cause some level of impairment," says ...

Exposure therapy is one way to tackle it. In one study, scientists found that people exposed to a series of pictures of spiders for just ten minutes recorded lower fear responses to the creature.

In fact, the strongest evolutionary case for arachnophobia rests on the dangers not of spiders but of scorpions, the theory being that we generalized a reasonable fear of those creatures into a ...