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If they're meant to make us laugh, then why are some people so afraid of clowns? Business Insider recently spoke with Dr. Dena Rabinowitz, a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders.
小丑的本意是為了讓我們笑，那么為什么一些人會害怕他們呢？商業內幕最近與專治焦慮癥的臨床心理學家德娜·拉比諾維茨進行了談話。
Rabinowitz says, "There two things about clowns that kind of inherently lead people to be frightened of them. The first is that we rely a lot on facial expressions to understand people and see their motivations. And with clowns you don't have facial expressions. It's all under makeup, and it's fixed. And so there's a kind of a question of, "what's going on under there?"
拉比諾維茨說“小丑有兩種東西會讓人們出于本能地害怕他們。第一就是我們很大程度上依靠面部表情來了解別人并判斷他們的動機。而小丑沒有面部表情。全部都被固定的妝容覆蓋住了。所以人們會想‘這張臉下面在想些什么’？”
The second thing is people don't inherently trust people who are always happy and laughing. For a lot of people, the fear of clowns actually is part of a more general fear of masked creatures. In regular parlance it's called: coulrophobia."
“第二點就是人們天生不太相信那些永遠開心和大笑的人。對很多人而言，對小丑的恐懼其實是對戴著面具的生物的恐懼。它的通常說法叫做：小丑恐懼癥。”
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