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The Most Common Phobias In The United States, Mapped

The Most Common Phobias In The United States, Mapped
What are the people in your state most afraid of? Hope it's not maps.
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Got any phobias? Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), maybe, or galeophobia (fear of sharks)? Or how about trypophobia — fear of holes?

Whatever your phobia, there's almost certainly a name for it, and you're not the only one who experiences it. ProWritingAid gathered the data on the most prevalent phobias in every state and put 'em on a map. (If you are afraid of maps, by the way, you could say you have cartographobia.)


Key takeaways:
  • The most common fear by state is the fear of holes (trypophobia), followed by — in the top five — fear of water (aquaphobia), needles (trypanophobia), death (thanatophobia) and crowded places (agoraphobia).
  • The five least common fears, cropping up as the most common fear in just one state each, are fear of the dark (nyctophobia), clowns (coulrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), heights (acrophobia) and small spaces (claustrophobia).
  • A couple fears you may not have heard of that appear on the map are the fear of large objects (megalophobia), in California, Michigan, New York and North Carolina; and the fear of being stared at (scoptophobia), in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Here's the full map — click to expand the image and see it in more detail.




[Source: ProWritingAid.com]

Comments

  1. Kellan Stocke 11 months ago

    i guess im not common, im in kentucky and my biggest fear is spiders by a long shot

  2. Ed Ward 1 year ago

    Biggest fear in the ocean state is fear of water? Really?

  3. Kryshu 1 year ago

    It must be a bitch to live in a tropical climate and have fear of insects. What is 'fear of sounds' and how does someone survive with that? Fear of holes is the most common, but oddly no one has my phobia, 'fear of falling.'

  4. Annie Johnson 1 year ago

    The irony of living on an island and being afraid of water. :(

  5. Jared Russo 1 year ago

    I understand New Yorkers being afraid of being hit by air conditioners falling or debris from skyscrapers, but those other states are afraid of what, hail?


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