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Word: erythrophobia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the phobias known to behavioral scientists are relatively rare afflictions. There are, for example, only a few victims of erythrophobia (the fear of blushing) and fewer yet of melissophobia (fear of bees) or panto-phobia (fear of everything). But Princeton University Philosopher Walter Kaufmann says that there is one age-old but hitherto unrecognized fear that is nearly universal. It is "decidophobia" -the morbid dread of making fateful decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Avoiding Decisions | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...Osborn Festival of Phobias. Text by Eve Wengler. Unpaged. Liveright. $6.95. Robert Osborn's cartoons seem perfunctory, but where else can one quickly brush up on the meaning of erythrophobia, pogonophobia, comapocopophobia, metopogrammoscopophobia or autophobophobia (fear of blushing, beards, haircuts, having one's character read by the lines in one's forehead, one's own fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $275 and Under | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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