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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Are You Scared of Dolls?

margie said that when things get really creepy is when our expectations don't match our reality. This is a doll, and it's violating everything that we expect a baby to be doing. So all that tension and dissonance is what can generate that sense of just uneas and creepiness. People have different chemical responses to fear in their brains. M so one thing that happens is you get a big kick of dopaman from being scared.

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