Dr. Frank McAndrew

And I don't think that style is creepy if you're in a society... Okay, I'm a college professor.

The goth thing comes and goes, and I've had lots of goth students.

Knowing that that's a fashion and a style that people of a certain age like to adopt, I don't think of that person as creepy because I understand they're just...

trying to kind of fit in.

They're trying to say something about themselves.

And that's within the norm.

But if you were to be goth and go to a place where people have never seen this before, then yeah, you'll creep them out.

Yeah, I would say so.

Yeah, I think that's a great example.

I hadn't thought about that one before, but I think that's exactly analogous to, you know, the predator in the woods waiting to get you.

Okay.

You may not be physically at risk, but you're financially at risk.

You're about to possibly have all kinds of hassles and problems, but you're not sure.

And it's this uncertainty that,

That is creating, I think that's exactly the same thing.

And if you've already sort of gone down the road a ways, you've already agreed to certain things, given certain information, it's really hard to reverse that.

So I think that's an excellent example.

I'm glad he shared that because I'm going to use that.

Yeah, it is.

Well, with the creepiness research, I think the big difficulty is making it as realistic as you would like.