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What is Papaphobia?

Fear of the Pope.

Non-associative theory proposes that the innate fear response is likely to be activated in a young child on his or her very first encounter with a prepotent stimulus, without the need for any traumatic or adverse experience. It is suggested that, in the normal course of events, individual experience causes fear to diminish and eventually disappear, i.e. habituation takes place. However, in a few children, this process does not occur and fear remains strong, resulting in phobia.

The phobia may be carried into adult life but if it arises later, it may represent a reactivation of an innate developmental fear. It is suggested that this might even be triggered by some unrelated stressful experience such as bereavement or depression.


Phobia of different kinds
Gynophobia
Glossophobia
Genophobia
Haphephobia
Heliophobia
Hemaphobia
Hexakosioihexe kontahexaphobia
Hippopotomonstro sesquippedaliophobia
Hydrophobia
Hypnophobia
Russophobia
Scopophobia
Paraskavedek atriaphobia
Ichthyophobia
Judeophobia
Lachanophobia
Lygophobia
Mysophobia
Monophobia
Musophobia
Necrophobia
Neophobia
Nyctophobia
Ophidiophobia
Ornithophobia
Osmophobia
Pyrophobia
Papaphobia
Pathophobia
Pediophobia
Peladophobia
Pentheraphobia
Phalacrophobia
Phasmophobia
Philophobia
Phobophobia
Photophobia
Phonophobia
Pogonophobia
Polyphobia
Selachophobia
Sinophobia
Taphephobi
Technophobia
Thanatophobia
Theophobia
Tocophobia
Toxiphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
Trypanophobia
Xanthophobia
Xenophobia
Zemmiphobia
Zoophobia


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