From Scorpion to Spider: Tracing the Origin of Fear of Spiders and Other Chelicerates through Perceptual Fear Generalization Gradients across Chelicerates

Published: 17 December 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/syvjrn83bn.1
Contributors:
Alireza Nikakhtar, Pavol Prokop, Abbas Zabihzadeh, Arash Monajem, Mohammad Mahdi Afshar Azad

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The data include fear of Chelicerates and other arthropods, relative and absolute similarity to spiders and scorpions, scorpion fear eliciting body parts, perceived danger, raters evaluations of Chelicerates shared body parts with scorpion, and province of residence

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Institutions

  • Allameh Tabatabai University Faculty of Psychology and Education

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Human-Animal Interaction

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