Dr. Frank McAndrew

One was like this big underwater hole that a person was kind of perched at the edge of.

Creepy people were people who were like these spooky little girl identical twins that were in a black and white photo, a baker who makes pies.

with human faces on them where they're bleeding and all of that.

Well, I think anything that is potentially

dangerous or threatening to us is going to be a universal thing.

That's going to be innate.

So fears of dark alleyways late at night and things like that.

I mean, if there was a place where it was very normal to see two strange looking identical little girls standing in the hallway,

They would not think anything of that.

It's all in what you're used to.

So I'm going to lean in the direction of saying it's mostly innate.

It's wired into us.

Well, one thing we found very strongly, males are creepier than females.

And this is true whether you're a male or a female yourself.

You're more easily creeped out by men than by women.

And I think there are a number of reasons for that, but I think the big one is simply males are more threatening and dangerous in a physical sense than females are.

Whether you're male or female yourself, you're more likely to have something bad happen to you at the hands of a man than a woman.

Women often reported that, yes, I think creepy people are likely to have a sexual interest in me.

Yes, there's something about their sexual tastes that's part of their creepiness.

So I think this is one of the things that are on women's minds a lot more than they are on men for good reason.