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Phobias are not hereditary, because they are learned behaviors. Hereditary, however, means they are passed from parents to children in a genetic sense. While emetophobia is not hereditary, children can observe and pick up the same habits their parents exhibit, and thereby develop emetophobia from the example their parents provide for them.
