Why We're So Creeped Out By Staring

Few things are as creepy as turning around to find someone staring at you. As Trace tells us: that creepy feeling is actually hardwired into our brains! Read More: Think someone's staring at you? You're not paranoid... it's 'hardwired' into our brains http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2308318/Think-someones-staring-Youre-paranoid--hard-wired-brains.html "We are hard-wired to feel people are staring at us - even when they aren't, according to a new scientific study." How you know eyes are watching you http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-narcissus-in-all-us/201102/how-you-know-eyes-are-watching-you "You know that feeling you get when you're being stared at?" Are people really staring at you? http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=11335 "People often think that other people are staring at them even when they aren't research led by the University of Sydney has found." Humans Have an Expectation That Gaze Is Directed Toward Them http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982213003321 "Many animals use cues from another animal's gaze to help distinguish friend from foe." Magpies take decisions faster when humans look at them http://phys.org/news/2013-06-magpies-decisions-faster-humans.html "Researchers from the Seoul National University found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looking at them." Is Mars Infested With Pareidolia Rats? http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/mars-is-infested-with-pareidolia-rats-130529.htm "It has finally happened. Not content with (potentially) infecting the pristine Martian surface with our germs, it appears that we've sent a rat (yes, a whole rat) to the Red Planet." Watch More: Why Can't We Grow New Teeth?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wETbxYz0DNI How Animals See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ9xJUyIWY Pick Your Poison: Potassium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIrxnKvhac ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Anthony Carboni on Twitter http://twitter.com/acarboni Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 Trace Dominguez on Twitter http://twitter.com/trace501 DNews on Facebook http://facebook.com/dnews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com