Understanding animal fears: a comparison of the cognitive vulnerability and harm-looming models

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 The relationship between fear of each animal and dangerousness, disgustingness, uncontrollability and unpredictability

	Dangerousness	Disgustingness	Uncontrollability	Unpredictability
High-fear
Spiders	0.70**	0.58**	0.85**	0.40**
Cockroaches	0.46**	0.49**	0.82**	0.32*
Snakes	0.71**	0.60**	0.83**	0.57**
Rats	0.77**	0.66**	0.88**	0.58**
Low-fear
Ducks	0.60**	0.30*	0.72**	0.24
Rabbits	0.62**	0.34**	0.74**	0.25
Cats	0.47**	0.32*	0.73**	0.35**
Guinea Pigs	0.38**	0.40**	0.51**	0.13

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