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				Evolutionary psych. of fear & the scary face; image orig. source needed
			 
			![]() This image was used in a recent science article in New Scientist (I scanned in the pic from the print issue because the online article ditched the image (too scary for the Net ? ). FYI: New Scientist is the major weekly science mag in the UK. Anyway, no source was given for the image -- it looks like a still from an early-1960s film or TV series (B&W photography, hairstyle). It's a great, scary face ... so where did it come from? (I.e, movie, TV series, etc. (looks very Twillight Zoneish, so episode, please)). Please note that by "scary faces", I am primarily (though not exclusively) referring to faces of scared humans (and possibly other mammals). BTW: can you (the membership of the Horror.com forum) post some more scary faces? Reason: I am an O/C autodidact of all things science, including Evolutionary Psychology, so I need this info for a private research project. And I just plain dig scary faces. If there is an evo top-10 list of horrific perceptions, a scary face is likely near the top. Thx! ...or should I say ThaX! P.S. Here are other scary faces -- the whole scene in the first image is pretty spooky, too ;) Note, the eyes are closed ... so some of the long-held views that wide-open eyes being the scariest component of a scary face may not be all that true!! Face plus environment, perhaps. Axes, and other sharp instruments/tools BY APPEARANCE ALONE are innately scary, because like snakes and spiders, they go back a long way (as the fossil records indicate; see Neolithic stone axe image at bottom). Guns and bombs, despite being way deadlier, are not so scary, since they are new, evolutionarily speaking. From The Shining (1980): ![]() ![]() Neolithic stone axe image:  
		Last edited by hollowman; 11-25-2010 at 10:39 AM.  | 
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