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Feedback: Why Spiderman could be the best cure for arachnophobia

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8 May 2019

Superfearos

Scared of spiders? Afraid of ants? New research by a team in Israel suggests that watching movies showing them in a good light could help. Just a 7-second excerpt from the Marvel superhero movies Spider-Man and Ant-Man .

Feedback shudders slightly, but achieves distraction by wondering what other phobias might be treated by a suitably expanded Marvel universe. Might agoraphobia, for example, be alleviated by the release of Open Spaces Woman? The eponymous hero, a vast swathe of beachfront granted sentience in a freak lightning storm, roams the…

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