Why Are Things Creepy?

FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS:   / tweetsauce   SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/POIaN7 SOURCES & more creepy stuff below: John Bergeron's SINGING ANDROIDS [videos]:    • Video      • Video      • evil android   website: http://www.androidworld.com/prod68.htm SHAYE ST. John [videos]:    • Video      / shayesaintjohn   "Die in a week" image from MarbleHornets:    / marblehornets   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:   / the-3-types-of-terror-the-gross-out-the-si...   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):   / creepy     / creepygifs     / unnerving     / fearme     / scaredshitless     / shortscarystories   what I listened to while researching this episode (playlist): http://bit.ly/13pvoMb *************** music by    / jakechudnow   trip hop and 'spooky' music from http://www.audionetwork.com