Common audience fears and phobias

Joseph Russo

COMMON AUDIENCE FEARS AND PHOBIAS

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COMMON PHOBIAS

• Acrophobia – fear of heights

• Claustrophobia – fear of enclosed spaces

• Nyctophobia – fear of the dark

• Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes

• Arachnophobia – fear of spiders

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• Trypanophobia – Fear of injections/needles

• Astraphobia – Fear of thunder and lightning

• Nosophobia – Fear of having a disease

• Mysophobia – Fear of germs

• Triskaidephobia – Fear of the number 13

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Common audience fears and phobias