Luke D. 2023 | BASIS Independent Brooklyn
- Project Title: An Adequate and Novel Study of Phobias
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Jennifer Reyes
Fear is a universally felt emotion. Presentations of phobias are very personal and prevalent in the modern day, despite their evolutionary roots. Through my research, I am categorizing phobias into three distinct categories; evolutionarily preserved phobias, trauma-induced phobias, and those that represent a co-opting of the evolutionary fear response to more modern triggers, to which our biology would have no predisposition of fear. Additionally, I want to understand if these various phobias affect different groups of people with different severities and track what correlations may exist.
My Posts
Week Three (I’m In Italy)
April 15, 2023
As my family and I have taken a trip to the south of Italy to explore our roots, I have not been able to go into the practice. And while I have shifted my focus to spending time with my family, I am continuing to do my research. The concept of phobias, or irrational and […]
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Week Two… Electric Boogaloo
April 7, 2023
I started this week by working on redecorating one of the therapy rooms. I then attended a weekly meeting in which I met the people who were out the previous week. Following this, I proceeded to transfer information for one of the practice’s clients from a report their parents completed into a spreadsheet. Then, I […]
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Week 1
March 31, 2023
Before getting into my onsight, let’s first examine the evolutionary reasons for fears. Before modern civilization, humans lived in small, hunting/gathering groups. These groups were nomadic as they followed large megafauna for food. As time went on, people began to develop certain fear responses to dangerous aspects of their environment. Regardless of how dangerous the […]
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Week 0
March 17, 2023
Hello, my name is Luke DeLuna. I am working with Ms. Reyes and Dr. Ajmani White to classify phobias regarding the extent that they diverged from their evolutionary origin. I am interning at Small Brooklyn Psychology and am working towards the creation of a survey that will give me data regarding people’s fears.
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