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Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of
telephones.
Some experts in psychology believe that similar evolutionary or adaptationist arguments can help to explain certain human behavioural and anxiety disorders, including phobias. Strictly speaking, in order for evolutionary or adaptationist theories to be credible, it would be necessary to demonstrate that behavioural disorders are genetically controlled. Psychologists who support the theories take as their starting point the widely accepted view that the generation of anxiety or fear in the appropriate circumstances (for example, danger), is of survival value to an individual and to a species.
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