Why are so many humans (myself included) afraid of spiders? Arachnophobia consistently lands in the top 10 most-common phobias. Why? Especially when there aren’t *that* many deadly species of them? Why spiders over other animals?
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I have a theory that it’s because it’s seen as a “scary” creature for pranks and Halloween and such that we ended up feeding into creating a phobia on accident. Plus, when are we willingly exposed to spiders? Unfamiliarity and ignorance breeds fear
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