• Question: Why does everyone hate even harmless spiders?

    Asked by treehugger15 to Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      It is one of the most common specific phobias, and some statistics show that 50% of women and 10% of men show symptoms

      It may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive

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