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Why are people afraid of the dark? Today we dive into this common fear (even among adults).
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Further Reading:
Muris, P., Merckelbach, H., Ollendick, T. H., King, N. J., & Bogie, N. (2001). Children's nighttime fears: Parent-child ratings of frequency, content, origins, coping behaviors and severity. Behaviour research and therapy, 39(1), 13-28..
McGlashan, E. M., Poudel, G. R., Jamadar, S. D., Phillips, A. J., & Cain, S. W. (2021). Afraid of the dark: Light acutely suppresses activity in the human amygdala. Plos one, 16(6), e0252350.
Wichlinski, L. J. (2022). Adaptive Solutions to the Problem of Vulnerability During Sleep. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-36.
Oswald, I. (1976). The function of sleep. Postgraduate medical journal, 52(603), 15-18.
Grillon, C., Pellowski, M., Merikangas, K. R., & Davis, M. (1997). Darkness facilitates the acoustic startle reflex in humans. Biological psychiatry, 42(6), 453-460.
Wiesmann, M., Kopietz, R., Albrecht, J., Linn, J., Reime, U., Kara, E., ... & Stephan, T. (2006). Eye closure in darkness animates olfactory and gustatory cortical areas. Neuroimage, 32(1), 293-300.
Sidiki, S. S., Hamilton, R., & Dutton, G. N. (2003). Fear of the dark in children: is stationary night blindness the cause?. BMJ, 326(7382), 211-212.
Chaudhury, D., & Colwell, C. S. (2002). Circadian modulation of learning and memory in fear-conditioned mice. Behavioural brain research, 133(1), 95-108.
Aslani, S., Harb, M. R., Costa, P. S., Almeida, O. F., Sousa, N., & Palha, J. A. (2014). Day and night: diurnal phase influences the response to chronic mild stress. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8, 82.