The Infested Mind Why Humans Fear Loathe And Love Insects
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc; Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780199930197
Description: Exploring the nature of anxiety and phobia, Lockwood explores the lively debate about how much of our fear of insects can be attributed to ancestral predisposition for our own survival and how much is learned through individual experiences. Drawing on vivid case studies, Lockwood explains how insects have come to infest our minds in sometimes devastating ways and supersede even the most rational understanding of the benefits these creatures provide.