The difference between anxiety and fear is, you know, anxiety is anticipation of a future threat. Fear is that immediate. It's happening right now. And humans are one of the only animals that actually can have anxiety,. Which is fear of a future, a potentially bad something happend cause we can think far into the future. The most unlikely way of dying doesn't scare you, but the thing that could be outlandish terrifies you? Yes? So guns should be scary, yes, but they're not used in hor movies. It's the hatchet, the chan saw, the you know something else yet? O, well, maybe it's because we're in america,
Why do we like being scared? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the haunting effects of horror and recreational fear with horror scholar and author, Mathias Clasen, and neuroscientist, Heather Berlin, PhD.
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