Six-month-old babies show stress responses when viewing images of snakes and spiders, long before they could have learned this reaction through experience. When babies saw pictures of snakes and ...

Humans have always been creatures of instinct, constantly attuned to the dangers lurking around them. But in today’s world, where encounters with wildlife are becoming increasingly rare, our fears of ...

House of Fear follows 14 contestants in a remote setting as they face extreme challenges and social strategy for a $200,000 prize. Learn how and where the series was filmed ...

Fear of the fabled "big bad wolf" has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict. Humans both fear wolves and, ...

There’s actually a word for it: anthropophobia. Wiktionary (Wiktionary? Really?) defines it as, “A profound fear of human beings, or of human society.” Wikipedia adds, “An extreme, pathological form ...

The amygdala is a part of the brain important for emotional responses, especially fear. It is thought to be important in anxiety disorders. A new UC Davis study reveals new cell types in different ...

There’s something uniquely unsettling about a monster that refuses to show itself. Long before horror movies mastered that ...