Why do you think some people hate clowns? You will probably think that it is all connected to them having had a bad experience when they were a young child, and that is certainly the case for some, but it is not always the answer.
Instead, it has been shown that it could be related to something that lurks far deeper inside of us all. It may relate to something that is referred to as the ‘uncanny valley effect’ and it is just as strange as it sounds.
This hypothesis states that we have difficulties in dealing with things that look as if they should be human, but there is something just not quite right about it all. As a result, it produces a negative response within us as we just do not quite comprehend what is going on and it simply does not make sense to us. However, others just realize that it is a clown and is a guy in make-up which is why we do not all have the same extreme negative response.