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UNE’s David Livingstone Smith discusses theory of creepiness on "Leonard Lopate Show"

David Livingstone Smith
David Livingstone Smith

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., was a guest on WNYC’s radio program "The Leonard Lopate Show" on October 7, 2016. Comedian Neal Brennan, who hosted the show, interviewed Smith about the theory of creepiness.

Smith discussed specific things that people often find creepy, such as clowns, wax figurines, corpses and lifelike robots and related the feelings conjured by these things back to his theory of creepiness. “We regard something as creepy if we can’t slot it into a category or, more explicitly, when we slot it into two mutually exclusive categories simultaneously,” he explained.

Listen to the interview

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