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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780199930203 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780199930197 (alk. paper)

Print version: Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. Infested mind : why humans fear, loathe, and love insects. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013] xxi, 203 pages ISBN 9780199930197

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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