Do You Like Scary Movies?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's schmitty and we're gonna get a little spooky, right,
Hopefully you're okay with this, where As my daughter says pooky,
it's one of the cute things. She says, there's a
new study out that finds people who love horror films
may have better health. Okay, you're gonna ask where does
this come from. It's the Recreational Fear Lab at our

(00:22):
Who's University in Denmark. Yep, I also had no idea
that existed, and it says, here's why Halloween frights are
really good for your anxiety. So, regardless of why you
love scares, at the very core of recreational fear lies learning,
says the co founder of this recreational Fear Lab. So

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turning to horror movies to try and fix your anxiety
may actually train your brain to better predict fear signals
and suppress overwhelming physiological ones. Of course, listen, anxiety can
cause you to maybe overestimate a threat, think that you
maybe don't have an ability to cope. But watching horror
movies completely resets this and instead of this is the

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worst your cognitive ability goes Here's how I can get
out of this. I think this is absolutely insane, and
they're like, listen, scary stuff can still be traumatizing, but
this lab has found that the more you watch you
can actually change the barometer, so to speak, of how
you process fear. They said, listen, here's the deal. Though,

(01:31):
there's a big difference between voluntarily looking for scares and
being subjected to it, and that's the big difference when
it comes to trauma. You've got to find that scary
sweet spot. I've never really been a fan of horror.
I like scary movies, but I don't necessarily like the gore,
which I think comes along with a lot of horror.
But man, if you're telling me that it's going to

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help my anxiety and I don't have to pay for therapy,
I might be watching a lot of horror movies tomorrow