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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Kotsko, Adam. Creepiness. 2015 Francis T. McAndrew and Sara S. Koehnke, (On the Nature of) Creepiness. https://www.academia.edu/2465121/Creepiness

Hello, I'm a student planning to enrich this article over the next week for a university assignment. I've skimmed through the works of McAndrew et al (On the nature of creepiness, 2016) and of Watt et al (A case of the "Heeby Jeebies, 2016) and plan on structuring the article in the following sections:

Definition

• unease due to encounters with creepy people
• creepy people's characteristics according to the studies

Causes

• ambiguity of threat
• norm violation
• unpredictability

Evolutionary explanation

• why the previous mentioned causes trigger such unease (link with evolution)

I am still unsure of what can be done of the existing sections, like History. Another topic that I've encountered but haven't figured out how to include yet, is "creepiness" with respect to AI.

Let me know what you think and if you have any advice!

Thank you! Galloc2Cloud ( talk) 15:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC) reply

I have since changed the structure to the one currently used:

• Causes

- Individuals
- Technologies

• Evolutionary Explanation
  

For future edits:
- I would suggest adding another subsection to the causes: "places". The paper "The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How places Creep us out" by McAndrew has plenty of material on the subject.
- The section "History and Studies" needs heavy editing. It could either be deleted or maybe changed to the origin of the word ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-creep), which started being used thanks to Dickens
Galloc2Cloud ( talk) 10:49, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Study listed under "causes" perpetuates ableism by its judgement of people with "odd" smiles and crooked teeth, disheveled appearance, or people exhibiting "unconventional" behavior aligns with people who are disabled by certain mental/emotional/intellectual/physical disabilities, affecting their ability to manipulate their appearance as to fit into social expectations (like having clean, "neat" appearance instead of "disheveled" appearance) or people with disabilities who may not move their bodies in the same way a person without said disability would. A lot of the discomfort around people who exhibit these traits is rooted in ableism, judgement of people based on the ableist's perception of others as "disabled" and the prejudice they hold against them, then the actions taken to make that judgement tangible through oppression. I think that the acknowledgement of ableism's role in that study is missing, and that can be dangerous. I'm not sure whether an acknowledgement of that is sufficient or the study could be replaced/removed from the article. I definitely think the wording can be changed a little. 2600:4040:A034:A300:38CD:A1D9:DC04:1A8F ( talk) 03:13, 23 November 2022 (UTC) reply

Sorry about the title I don't know what to name it but here's two of my encounters with some very weird people. So me and my dad we're going to Circle K for drinks and we counted this random person outside the store (and I'm like 7-10 when I'm talking about this) and he looked off so my dad told me to lock the car doors and I was like "why?" and then he told me something weird but also not too weird this guy went to Circle K apparently my dad either was watching it when we were in the car or has seen him cuz he did work at work Circle K before. So what he saw was he was stealing stuff from the store making a sandwich in the back and ate it which I think is pretty weird cuz couldn't you just buy it and make it at home? Then there was another time where me and my aunt were buying stuff from Circle K. (this is all from Circle K) My aunt got uncomfortable around the person and I also got uncomfortable too so I can't blame her so he was looking at me a little weird I'm not going to dive too deep into that but still he was looking at me weird so she tried rushing this and getting out and told my grandma about it and I've never seen him since so I'm sorry about this hope I get to see some of your stuff as well so yeah,thank you <3 Kirbycute ( talk) 07:59, 14 July 2024 (UTC) reply