What Causes Trypophobia?
3,451Trypophobia is the fear of objects with small, clustered holes. Many people claim to suffer from the affliction, while it is not recognized by American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But what is it? Why do clusters of holes cause disgust, revulsion, even terror in some people? According to Dr. Geoff Cole and Professor Arnold Wilkins' findings in Psychological Science, the answer may lie...in evolution! Do you suffer from trypophobia? What do you think the fear stems from? Kim Horcher and Tim Frisch discuss the affliction, which Kim happens to have.
Read more from Vice: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/is-your-hatred-of-holes-evolutions-fault
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