The infested mind : : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects / / Jeffrey Lockwood.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Oxford University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.