Top 10 things that human beings are most afraid of list

In life, there is always one kind or another so that we scream and tremble things recently, "Scientific American" magazine selected the top ten of humanity's most feared things.


　　Snake. Snake in the human fear of the event was ranked first. Afraid of snakes can be found on the basis of evolutionary psychology, our ancestors must have the blink of an eye, he discovered the snake and quickly away from its capacity, in order to survive. This fear through genetic So far, so deeply rooted in our brains in the fear of snakes.



　　Spider. The extent of women's fear of spider men 4 times. Carnegie Mellon University, David? Raj Wilson believes that this is also the genes are at play. Primitive society, women are generally looking for food in the case of spiders, in order to ensure safe motherhood, women will quickly away from it. But men out hunting, they are mainly with the huge size of animal fighting, and for spiders are not looked down on.



　　Elevator. Mayo Medical Center study shows the United States, not only in the elevator, in buses, shopping malls, etc. are also prone to fear. Because of the narrow confined spaces easily give rise to anxiety, the people on the environment of extreme insecurity, weightlessness, extreme fear of people easily.



　Stranger. According to the National Institute of Mental Health statistics, there are 15 million American adults suffer from social phobia. The disease onset is usually in childhood or adolescence, is knowing too much but can not control feeling.



　　Height. A pilot explains the reasons for the high fear: fear of the researchers so that the higher and not fear, the higher the building standing on the same level, so that they can judge height. Those who are not afraid of heights to determine the height of the floor above the 3-meter, while the fear of the higher of the judge is more than the actual story of 12 meters. The researchers said that fear is higher because they exaggerated the brain a high degree of reason.



　Dark. The researchers noted that people's fear of the dark from "unknown." After lights out, eyes Heiqu Qu 1, do not know what the front and behind, what will happen, fear of the resulting. In the dark of the crowd, mostly children.



　Ray and Lightning. University of Iowa study found that more than 73% of people are afraid of the bad weather. This is for people to profit and avoid loss of the instinct, as many physical injuries related with thunder and lightning, plus a huge sound stimulus, but also will add to the fear.



　　Flight. Fear of flying it divides people into two kinds: one is the fear of the plane crash; the other is fear of the flight occurred during the robbery, hijacking and other terrorist incidents. The United States Emory University School of Medicine, director of trauma and anxiety recovery program, said Barbara, which is usually related to the accident heard the crash, all kinds of negative information in the human foot to leave the ground will continue to jump out.



　　Dog. Ohio State University psychology professor Brad? Smith Gaudet said, people fear dogs because they have been bitten by dogs or to see someone else had been bitten by dogs. In addition, there is a people are particularly afraid of dogs because they saw the dogs, the brain signals "dog will bite."



　　Dentists. USA Network Web site, MD, a survey shows that 1 / 5 of people afraid to see the dentist. People do not want to see a dentist due mainly to medical treatment, including through the unpleasant experience of fear Dama Yao, and the dental drill in the cold under the sense of helplessness