Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

Eva Landová; Markéta Janovcová; Iveta Štolhoferová; Silvie Rádlová; Petra Frýdlová; Kristýna Sedláčková; Daniel Frynta

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0257726

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Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

Eva Landová ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Landová, Markéta Janovcová

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: evalandova@seznam.cz

Affiliations National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8365-8710

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Markéta Janovcová ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eva Landová, Markéta Janovcová

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic
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Iveta Štolhoferová,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic
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Silvie Rádlová,

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic
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Petra Frýdlová,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic
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Kristýna Sedláčková,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic
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Daniel Frynta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, the Czech Republic, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic
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Specificity of spiders among fear- and disgust-eliciting arthropods: Spiders are special, but phobics not so much

Eva Landová,
Markéta Janovcová,
Iveta Štolhoferová,
Silvie Rádlová,
Petra Frýdlová,
Kristýna Sedláčková,
Daniel Frynta

Published: September 23, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257726

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