Fear of mice avoid a mouse, showing there may be some basis for this belief. It is not known why elephants should react in this way, though there are several theories. Regardless, elephantine murophobia remains the basis of various jokes and metaphors. The classical board game Dou Shou Qi has the Rat kill an Elephant: as multiple editions of the rule book mentions that the Rat would crawl into the Elephant's ears to gnaw into its brain: but this is considered to be a folk tale. Gertrude of Nivelles is the patron saint of murophobia, and is also invoked against rats and mice
Journal of Abnormal Psychology fall within the length restrictions of a regular (not extended) article. The priority is empirical papers. [...] Therefore, a study that focuses primarily on treatment efficacy should be submitted to the "Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology". However, a longitudinal study focusing on developmental influences or origins of abnormal behavior should be submitted to the "Journal of Abnormal Psychology". The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 4.133, ranking it 11th out of 129 journals in the category "Psychology, Multidisciplinary"