Why does the sound of nails on a chalk board get such a physical reaction from us?
08 June 2008
Question
Why does the sound of nails on a chalk board get such a physical reaction from us?
Answer
It's horrible, isn't it? The reason for this is not 100% known but there is a hypothesis. The idea is that the kind of frequencies that you get when you get the fingernails-down-the-blackboard experience is similar to the kind of frequencies that animals release when they're in distress. It's a kind of distress signal and therefore we are pre-programmed or galvanised into action by those particular choice of frequencies.
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