Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2013
228 pages
978-0-19-993020-3 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the unique psychological attitude of human beings toward insects, and discusses why people are scared, disgusted, or enthralled by them.
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12/2013
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. The Nature of Fear-and the Fear of Nature
- 2. Evolutionary Psychology: Survival of the Scaredest
- 3. Learning to Fear: Little Miss Muffet's Lesson
- 4. A Fly in Our Mental Soup: How Insects Push Our Disgust Buttons
- 5. The Maggoty Mind: A Natural History of Disgust
- 6. The Terrible Trio: Imagining Insects into Our Lives
- 7. Treating the Infested Mind: Exterminating Entomophobia
- 8. Overcoming Fear and Disgust for Fun and Profit: The Professionals
- 9. The Infatuated Mind: Entomophilia as the Human Condition
- 10. Entomapatheia: Can't We Just Live and Let Live?
- 11. Back to the "Real" World: Good Night, Sleep Tight . . . or Maybe Not
- Epilogue: Insects as a Psychological Precipice
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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