The researcher is studying anxiety disorders, more specifically phobias and whether a person's fear of a creature is correlated with the person's fear of the creature's ugliness.
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... ABSTRACT The researcher is studying anxiety disorders, more specifically phobias and whether a person's fear of a creature is correlated with the person's fear of the creature's ugliness. This study is similar to that of Bennett-Levy and Marteau's 1984 study. The aim of the study is to establish whether there is a correlated link between the fearfulness of the creature and its ugliness. The hypothesis for the study is that there will be a positive correlation between the fearfulness and the ugliness of a creature. However, the null hypothesis states that there will be no significant correlation between fearfulness and ugliness and that any observed difference is due to chance alone. Ten participants, five of whom are males and the other five are females, between the ages of 16 and 18, who are students in the Sixth Form of the researchers local comprehensive. They were required to fill out a














