If you stare at a pattern where the horizontal stripes are red and the vertical stripes are green, you might forever see horizontal & vertical stripes as having color even when they don't.
Damn it really persists. Good one
Ugh it's hurts the eyes to even try. 😵💫
The backfire effect. This is when someone see irrefutable proofs that he's wrong, he believes more than ever that he's right.
There is no such phenomenon, and your link proves it.
It doesn't though? How are you arriving at that conclusion?
I guess my comment backfired.
Creating the feeling of body ownership. Trippy and makes me jump every time.
In this list, conservatism bias strikes me as very much on the upward trend the last 5-10 years
Uncanny Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
tl;dr: Neither regular, boring, human faces nor highly stylized comic / chibi / animated human beings are percieved as "inhuman", but as soon as an artificial face looks too real but still slightly off, basically the middle of the scale between "real" and "definitely man-made", it can provoke feelings of extreme discomfort in the viewer. You're basically creeped out by something that tries to look human but fails at that only barely enough to notice.
Herd mentality
Any normal human being can be a bloodthirsty beast when he's a part of a group. The group effect demultiplicate the violence of their members and can lead them to acts that they would never do when isolated. Really terrifying mechanism.
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