Why Are Things Creepy? Vsauce
Published on Jul 2, 2013
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SOURCES & more creepy stuff below:
John Bergeron's SINGING ANDROIDS [videos]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-Aw...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFl_W...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-9v7a...
website: http://www.androidworld.com/prod68.htm
SHAYE ST. John [videos]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzobV_...
http://www.youtube.com/user/ShayeSain...
"Die in a week" image from MarbleHornets: http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHor...
Nightmare-fuel image collections:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Nig...)
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_Hand...
Creepypasta (unnerving stories): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepypasta
aphobia: people who don't feel fear: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/b...
sad, terrifying study on learning fear (Little Albert Experiment): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_A...
scariest things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear#Com...
fear processing in brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_pro...
Stephen King on types of scary stuff: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84666...
Claude Levi Strauss on masks and why CLOWNS ARE SCARY: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a...
Uncanny Valley:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/health/...
image metrics video: http://www.awntv.com/videos/image-met...
paper on "creepiness": http://academia.edu/2465121/Creepiness
famous Cognitive Dissonace study on behavior [with video]: http://www.simplypsychology.org/cogni...
High Place Phenomenon study: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/weird-u...
HPP paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22...
terrible and terrific etymology (it's called "amelioration"): http://english.stackexchange.com/ques...
Laurie Lipton does GREAT creepy drawings: http://www.laurielipton.com/drawings/
creepy people LITERALLY give you chills: http://www.scientificamerican.com/pod...
creepy things kids say: http://www.uncommon-parenting.com/201...
these are scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcas...
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/shortscarysto...
what I listened to while researching this episode (playlist): http://bit.ly/13pvoMb
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music by
http://www.YouTube.com/JakeChudnow
trip hop and 'spooky' music from http://www.audionetwork.com
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