Heights, spiders, thunderstorms? Hungarians’ deepest fears revealed

Ever wondered if anyone shares your deepest fears? Whether it’s anxiety about being alone, heights, spiders or even thunderstorms, chances are you’re not the only one.

Interested in identifying which phobias are the most common, the experts at PsychicWorld.com collated a seed list of the 15 most well-known phobias and analysed Google search findings in order to find out the most common phobia in Hungary.

Key Findings:

• The most common phobia in Hungary is trypophobia, with an average search volume of 5,200 searches a month. Whether it’s pancakes, sponges or honeycomb, people with this phobia fear small holes, particularly when they appear in clusters.
• Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) and arachnophobia (fear of spiders) rank in second and third place, with 1,000 and 600 average searches per month respectively.
• Hungary’s least searched-for phobia is hemophobia, or fear of blood, with only 20 monthly searches.

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The most common phobias in Hungary

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Methodology

1. PsychicWorld.com sought to discover the most common phobias in Europe and the US.
2. ​A comprehensive seed list of popular phobias was compiled utilising multiple websites, including: Verywell Mind, MedicineNet, Money Inc, The International Psychology Clinic and Knowinsiders. Only phobias that appeared more than once across the different articles were taken into consideration.
3. A refined list of 15 phobias was created.
4. Following, a complete list of all 44 countries in Europe was extracted from Worldometer. The following countries were omitted from the research, due to lack of data: Holy See, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino. Out of 44 European countries in total, data was collected and amalgamated for 40.
5. Average monthly search volumes for each phobia across all countries were then gathered utilising the search analytics tool Ahrefs. Search volumes for keyword variations, such as: fear of heights, fear of spiders and fear of flying were also collected for US and UK searches in order to obtain accurate results.
6. All phobias were then ranked based on the number of countries they had appeared in, so that the most common phobia could be determined.
7. All data was collected on 25/8/22 and is subject to change.

Source: PsychicWorld.com Press release