The science of fear
NOVA Presents
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Why Horror to the Duses
Matthias Kleson thinks that this desire to push our limits of what scares us evolve for the same reason that playtime evolved in the animal kingdom. It's a mechanism that allows us to learn about the world and ourselves, he says. And then, of course, there are other kind of social dimensions. I mean, for a lot of people, horror is really a social phenomenon, something you do with friends - it's very possible.
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