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Online Skin Disease Hoaxes: Widespread and credible to viewers.

Wagner K, Croley J, Wilson J.

Fake Skin Disease Online: A Review of Dermatological Hoaxes.
Wagner K, Croley J.

Pupillometry reveals the physiological underpinnings of the aversion to holes.
Ayzenberg V, et al.
 

Involuntary protection against dermatosis: A preliminary observation on trypophobia.

Yamada Y, et al. 

Disgusting clusters: trypophobia as an overgeneralised disease avoidance response.
Kupfer T,  et al.

Trypophobia: an investigation of clinical features.
Vlok-Barnard M, et al. 

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Trypophobia, skin, and media. 
Wagner K, et al.
 

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