The year 2020, it appears, is the year of fear. As I write these words, there’s no emotion that seems to have gripped more hearts than fear. Despite all the things we might be afraid of (nuclear war, ...

Seeing the Funny Side of Phobia Some find that humor helps them deal with their fear, while others understandably don’t see it as funny. On Reddit, the Words community has dissected the term multiple ...

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (ironically a super long word) or simply sesquipedalophobia. It’s a real phobia tied to ...

Fans of horror, rejoice: A new study suggests that books are more attuned to fear than they used to be. Researchers, led by Alberto Acerbi and Vasileios Lampos, combed through a Google database of ...

At a recent workshop that addressed communication, one guideline stuck out: “It’s okay to disagree; not okay to blame, shame or attack (others).” In our current political arena, we are subjected to ...

Humans can "catch" fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings—by a team of psychologists from the University of ...

Words matter. The words we tell ourselves and each other matter. I am going to tell you a word that is so important that it has the capacity to transform the world. It is a message so powerful and yet ...

It’s certainly oddly fitting that the fear of long words is named with one of the longest words in the English language: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. This 36-letter word is practically a ...