Fear of trains the social norms of a realistic fear, this anxiety may be classified as a specific phobia about trains. "Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary" puts fear of trains under the "vehicle phobia", together with fears of boats, airplanes, automobiles, and other forms of transportation. A 1913 short story "Terror" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is a first-person narrative of a young man suffering of the morbid fear of travel in trains and streetcars. Tanizaki uses the German word , "railroad sickness". Other travel-related anxieties include: Other transport-related disorders include: Fear of trains The fear of trains is anxiety and fear associated with trains, railways, and
Fear animal look more impressive), sweating, increased blood glucose (hyperglycemia), increased serum calcium, increase in white blood cells called neutrophilic leukocytes, alertness leading to sleep disturbance and "butterflies in the stomach" (dyspepsia). This primitive mechanism may help an organism survive by either running away or fighting the danger. With the series of physiological changes, the consciousness realizes an emotion of fear. People develop specific fears as a result of learning. This has been studied in psychology as fear conditioning, beginning with John B. Watson's Little Albert experiment in 1920, which was inspired after observing a child with an irrational fear of