Lilapsophobia - fear of tornadoes and hurricanes Good Lord, it's dreadful to have to always look at the sky on a stormy day, at the clouds that look like they could be forming a funnel cloud at any moment. But because there are mountains in Idaho, tornadoes are highly unlikely to form...
leprophobiasyn. oflepraphobia.[OED, ID] levophobiaFear of leftness and things to the left.[ID, WP] ligyrophobiasyn. ofacousticophobia.[ID] lilapsophobiaFear of tornadoes or hurricanes.[ID, CE] limnophobiaFear of lakes.[ID] linonophobiaFear of string.[ID, CE, WP] ...
Severe weather phobiaHurricanesAnxietyThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Hurricane Katrina on those with preexisting storm fear. Participants were divided into two groups, those with a fear of storms and control participants with no reported fears of any specific stimuli. ...
The brain through repetition learns specific fearful neural pathways, creating the habit of fight or flight- even when responding to non-threatening situations. Some people are more susceptible than others and develop what is called a “phobia,” or severe debilitating fear. Fear quickly escalates ...
People living in South Florida may have a stronger fear of hurricanes than people living in Kansas, and people in Kansas probably have a deeper fear of tornadoes than do people in Vermont. What we fear says a lot about our life experience. There is a phobia called taijin kyofusho that is...
Similarly, research on blood-injection-injury-type-specific phobia clusters two fears different in their innateness: 1) an arguably ontogenetic memory-trace-overconsolidation-based fear (hospital phobia) and 2) a hardwired (innate) fear of the sight of one's blood or a sharp object penetrating ...