Citations:chronometrophobia
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English citations of chronometrophobia
- 2000 September 22, Samantha Ellis, “Last Chance”, in Evening Standard, London, section “Exhibition”, page 60:
- The exhibition includes timepieces built into swords or masquerading as medicine cases, as well as paintings and watercolours about time in general. […] Those who don’t suffer from chronometrophobia (fear of clocks), should find this exhibition satisfyingly intriguing.
- 2012, Richard J. Atkinson, Animal Pursuits:
- Perhaps they've developed chronometrophobia. Then again, she might have fallen out of the nest once too often as a chick, or maybe the constant tick tock has taken its toll.
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[edit]- 2021 May 23, “Fear of watches (chronometrophobia): causes, symptoms and treatment”, in Yes, Therapy Helps:
- Chronometrophobia is developed by classical conditioning, because it occurs by the association of a stimulus that initially causes a reflex response of fear and another that originally does not cause it.