Specific phobias are out-of-proportion fears to objects, animals or situations, and fortunately, they can be treated.

but some phobias go way beyond the realm of common fears. Have you ever wondered about the unusual and bizarre fears that some people might experience? While many of us are familiar with common ...

"Phobias are the most common mental disorder," says R. Reid Wilson, PhD, spokesman for the American Psychological Association. "Over their lifetimes, 11% of people will have a phobia." What are ...

To not react negatively to a starter pistol, the brain has to recognize the blast as harmless and then shut down any fearful ...

However, if you have social anxiety or social phobia, which is the fear of being around people, public speaking, initiating or continuing conversations. That's something that comes up every day.

The Trump administration has unleashed a wave of policies that have made life more complicated for transgender and nonbinary ...

Transphobic bathroom legislation is sweeping across the nation. So five trans and non-binary people from The Anti-Violence Project came to Mashable to tell us what our bathroom priorities should be.

Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze delves deep into the dark recesses of our minds to get at the facts behind our phobias ... When Did People Start Keeping ...

People aren't born with a clown phobia, but they can certainly be genetically predispositioned to have an anxiety disorder. But a specific fear of clowns either comes because you had a traumatic ...

So she understands the hesitancy people may have after seeing certain aviation emergencies unfold — yet said there's hope and a way to get through fear. "I've been in two in-flight ...