Fear of mice Fear of mice Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek "μῦς" "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the family Muridae that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from French "souris", "mouse". The phobia, as an unreasonable and disproportionate fear, is distinct from reasonable concern about rats and mice contaminating food supplies, which may potentially be universal to all times, places, and cultures where stored grain attracts rodents, which then consume or contaminate the food supply. In many cases a
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"