Film makers really do understand the psychology of fear, and they really play on your fear. Part of it has to do with uncertainty. So there's a suspense, there's a build up there. They're playing with four. But what about being scared of things that are not real, and were never real? You don't like ghosts oror vampire vampires? Why is it? Cause we have such a good imagination that the never real become real for us to fear them. That justi it feels very im inefficient, evolutionarily inefficient, to fear things that never existed,. Like mya irrational fear of santa claus.
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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