Citations:trypophobia

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English citations of trypophobia

  • 2014, Brandon Sanderson, chapter 14, in Legion: Skin Deep, [London]: Orion Publishing Group, published 2015, →ISBN:
    I barely noticed Tobias's schizophrenia anymore, let alone Ivy's trypophobia. But the madness was there, lurking.
  • 2015, An T. D. Le, G[eoff] G. Cole, A[rnold] J. Wilkins, “Assessment of Trypophobia and an Analysis of Its Visual Precipitation”, in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, volume 68, number 11, →DOI, →PMID, abstract, page 2304:
    We developed and validated a symptom scale that can be used to identify "trypophobia", in which individuals experience aversion induced by images of clusters of circular objects. [] [W]e found that clusters of concave objects (holes) did not induce significantly more discomfort than clusters of convex objects (bumps), suggesting that trypophobia involves images with particular spectral profile rather than clusters of holes per se.
  • 2015, Irena Milosevic, “Trypophobia (Fear of Holes)”, in Irena Milosevic, Randi E. McCabe, editors, Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear: The Psychology of Irrational Fear, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 402:
    The prevalence of trypophobia in the general population is not known. However, preliminary research suggests that the tendency to experience aversion in response to trypophobic stimuli is relatively common.