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What Is The Scariest Thing?

Vsauce | February 6, 2025



Everyone is scared of something … but what’s the SCARIEST thing? Is it even possible to answer such a question? In this special I explore the dark recesses of the mind to learn how fears are born and whether there exists a grand, unifying terror.

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SEASON 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA4qyEuYfAMCazlL0vQDkIj2

SEASON 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl5KJ69qiA&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7wmh3Z6EQuOK9fm1CqnJCI

SEASON 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7LX19uAySGlc9hmprBxfEP

INDEX
0:00 Intro
02:37 Fear Conditioning
06:03 Amygdala and Hippocampus
06:49 Innate Aversions
07:39 The Web of Fear
08:38 Fear of Death
10:30 Informational Learning/Storytelling
12:02 Nomophobia
12:48 Isolation
15:25 Fear of the Dark
17:36 Fear of Sounds
17:58 Auditory Cortex, Thalamus, and Amygdalae
19:41 Dissonance
22:00 Law of Contagion
23:23 Piloerection Reflex
24:49 Distorted Forms
27:14 Vicarious Learning/Social Fear Transmission
30:05 Innate Aversions
31:14 Category Jamming
35:04 Patient SM, Non-Functioning Amygdalae
36:44 Suffocation
37:54 Midbrain, Brain Stem

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