Phonophobia, also known as sonophobia, ligyrophobia, or acousticophobia, is a type of specific phobia that relates to loud sounds. Specific phobias affect approximately 27% of people ages 20 to 50.
which range from fear of computers to an anxiety about specific numbers (not just fear of the number 13, or triskaidekaphobia). Phobias - the word is Greek for 'fear' - have always been part of ...
True phobias—paralyzing, crippling fears, sometimes irrational—can make movie-watching an awkward or potentially horrifying experience for some people. To be sure, there’s a difference ...