The infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects / / Jeffrey Lockwood
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| Autore: |
Lockwood Jeffrey Alan <1960->
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| Titolo: |
The infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects / / Jeffrey Lockwood
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 pages ) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina: | 616.85/225 |
| Soggetto topico: | Insect phobia |
| Fear | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue: the infestation begins -- The nature of fear and the fear of nature -- Evolutionary psychology: survival of the scaredest -- Learning to fear: little Miss Muffett's lesson -- A fly in our mental soup: how insects push our disgust buttons -- The maggoty mind: a natural history of disgust -- The terrible trio: imagining insects into our lives -- Treating the infested mind: exterminating entomophobia -- Overcoming fear and disgust for fun and profit: the professionals -- The infatuated mind: entomophilia as the human condition -- Entomapatheia: can't we just live and let live? -- Back to the real world: good night, sleep tight or maybe not -- Epilogue: insects as a psychological precipice. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Examines the unique psychological attitude of human beings toward insects, and discusses why people are scared, disgusted, or enthralled by them. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The infested mind |
| ISBN: | 0-19-993020-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453135703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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