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m-azing: aeromachia: miketooch: ikeepasmileonmyfacesotheydontkno: samisntcool: fyeahcreepyshit: Submitted by spirited-astray Many classic horror icons and other disturbing creatures share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, elongated faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason. The characteristics shared by these faces are imprinted in the human mind. Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, predators could be hiding in the dark, heights could make poor footing lethal, and a spider or snake bite could mean certain death. The question you have to ask yourself is this: What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces? … Just be careful out there. This is one of the coolest things I have ever read on tumblr. Well shit. This has got to b inebof the most interesting and mind blowing things I’ve read. Like wow. Ik I’ve posted this before but everytime I read it im just still shocked that people haven’t come to this conclusion before. It’s rather creepy lol :D i love monsters you guys to be honest, I suspect the fear factor here is a function of human face recognition capabilities! Various studies have shown that even very young babies will respond to a ∵ sign with more interest/excitement than a ∴ sign. We’ve all experienced pareidolia from time to time (seeing faces in clouds/rock faces/carpet fuzz), which goes to show that our face-recognition apparatus is overpowered enough to offer a false positive from time to time. My feeling here is that maybe dark eyes on a very contrasting background simultaneously make your brain go YEP THIS HERE IS A FACE and WOW WHAT NOBODY LOOKS LIKE THAT HOLY BALLS and the uncanny feeling stems from that contrast? i don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade; also i don’t really know science, this is entirely conjectural i suspect would be more freaked-out if Monsieur/Madamoiselle Le Vamp up there wasn’t kinda hot …………But actually that’s not how it always works. Response to fear is as much learned as it is innate. In a series of studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s, researchers tested the question by comparing lab-raised monkeys with monkeys born in the wild. Lab-raised monkeys with no previous fear of snakes began to show fear after watching wild-born monkeys, both live and in videotapes, show fear of snakes. But when videos were manipulated so that wild-born monkeys appeared to be afraid of flowers, lab-raised monkeys watching them didn’t take the cue. It seems likely that there is indeed, etched into the primate brain, a predisposition to dread natural phenomena that can hurt us, but no predisposition to learn to fear something that will not. But the predisposition requires social experience to be activated. As the lab-raised monkeys learned fear of snakes from other monkeys, the baby stands a good chance of acquiring a fear of snakes after watching other humans. We could be afraid of pale faces with dark eyes because of some ancient gene wiring, or we could be afraid of them because we’re exposed to horror media featuring pale faces with dark eyes all the time. 

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Submitted by spirited-astray

Many classic horror icons and other disturbing creatures share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, elongated faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason. The characteristics shared by these faces are imprinted in the human mind.

Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, predators could be hiding in the dark, heights could make poor footing lethal, and a spider or snake bite could mean certain death.

The question you have to ask yourself is this:

What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces?

… Just be careful out there.

This is one of the coolest things I have ever read on tumblr.

Well shit. This has got to b inebof the most interesting and mind blowing things I’ve read. Like wow. Ik I’ve posted this before but everytime I read it im just still shocked that people haven’t come to this conclusion before. It’s rather creepy lol

:D i love monsters you guys

to be honest, I suspect the fear factor here is a function of human face recognition capabilities! Various studies have shown that even very young babies will respond to a ∵ sign with more interest/excitement than a ∴ sign. We’ve all experienced pareidolia from time to time (seeing faces in clouds/rock faces/carpet fuzz), which goes to show that our face-recognition apparatus is overpowered enough to offer a false positive from time to time. My feeling here is that maybe dark eyes on a very contrasting background simultaneously make your brain go YEP THIS HERE IS A FACE and WOW WHAT NOBODY LOOKS LIKE THAT HOLY BALLS and the uncanny feeling stems from that contrast?

i don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade; also i don’t really know science, this is entirely conjectural

i suspect would be more freaked-out if Monsieur/Madamoiselle Le Vamp up there wasn’t kinda hot

…………But actually that’s not how it always works. Response to fear is as much learned as it is innate.

In a series of studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s, researchers tested the question by comparing lab-raised monkeys with monkeys born in the wild. Lab-raised monkeys with no previous fear of snakes began to show fear after watching wild-born monkeys, both live and in videotapes, show fear of snakes. But when videos were manipulated so that wild-born monkeys appeared to be afraid of flowers, lab-raised monkeys watching them didn’t take the cue. It seems likely that there is indeed, etched into the primate brain, a predisposition to dread natural phenomena that can hurt us, but no predisposition to learn to fear something that will not. But the predisposition requires social experience to be activated. As the lab-raised monkeys learned fear of snakes from other monkeys, the baby stands a good chance of acquiring a fear of snakes after watching other humans.

We could be afraid of pale faces with dark eyes because of some ancient gene wiring, or we could be afraid of them because we’re exposed to horror media featuring pale faces with dark eyes all the time. 

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