Why Are Things Creepy?
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SOURCES & more creepy stuff below:
John Bergeron's SINGING ANDROIDS [videos]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFl_WD6vV8#t=7m40s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-9v7azMsno
website: http://www.androidworld.com/prod68.htm
SHAYE ST. John [videos]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzobV_qoIcQ
http://www.youtube.com/user/ShayeSaintJohn
"Die in a week" image from MarbleHornets: http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHornets
Nightmare-fuel image collections:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/w....iki/Nightmare_Fuel_(
http://imgur.com/a/zpxZj?gallery
http://imgur.com/a/fcz3G
dot jpg?? http://i.imgur.com/82taS.jpg
scared of heights? don't watch this: http://bit.ly/h29PLp
More info about "The Hands Resist Him" painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him
Creepypasta (unnerving stories): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepypasta
aphobia: people who don't feel fear: http://www.psychologytoday.com..../blog/brain-babble/2
sad, terrifying study on learning fear (Little Albert Experiment): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L....ittle_Albert_experim
scariest things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear#Common_fears
fear processing in brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F....ear_processing_in_th
Stephen King on types of scary stuff: http://www.goodreads.com/quote....s/84666-the-3-types-
Claude Levi Strauss on masks and why CLOWNS ARE SCARY: http://blogs.scientificamerica....n.com/anthropology-i
Uncanny Valley:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/....health/uncanny-valle
image metrics video: http://www.awntv.com/videos/im....age-metrics-emily-pr
paper on "creepiness": http://academia.edu/2465121/Creepiness
famous Cognitive Dissonace study on behavior [with video]: http://www.simplypsychology.or....g/cognitive-dissonan
High Place Phenomenon study: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/....weird-urge-jump-brid
HPP paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22119089
terrible and terrific etymology (it's called "amelioration"): http://english.stackexchange.c....om/questions/38606/w
Laurie Lipton does GREAT creepy drawings: http://www.laurielipton.com/drawings/
creepy people LITERALLY give you chills: http://www.scientificamerican.....com/podcast/episode.
creepy things kids say: http://www.uncommon-parenting.....com/2013/05/the-answ
these are scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B....roadcast_signal_intr
creepy subreddits (some may be nsfw):
http://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/
http://www.reddit.com/r/creepygifs
http://www.reddit.com/r/unnerving
http://www.reddit.com/r/FearMe/
http://www.reddit.com/r/scaredshitless
http://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/
what I listened to while researching this episode (playlist): http://bit.ly/13pvoMb
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