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How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier
Manage episode 515833086 series 2540430
Halloween isn't just costumes and candy. It's also a time when we indulge our interest in the scary and macabre. But there's also a taboo about gory horror movies and gruesome true crime shows - we often feel that being interested in blood and violence is unhealthy. The opposite is possibly true.
Psychologist Coltan Scrivner (author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away) says that watching a scary movie or listening to a murder podcast is perfectly natural and in fact teaches us valuable lessons to enhance our emotional resilience.
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Chapters
1. How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier (00:00:00)
2. Marker 01 (00:44:54)
259 episodes
Manage episode 515833086 series 2540430
Halloween isn't just costumes and candy. It's also a time when we indulge our interest in the scary and macabre. But there's also a taboo about gory horror movies and gruesome true crime shows - we often feel that being interested in blood and violence is unhealthy. The opposite is possibly true.
Psychologist Coltan Scrivner (author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away) says that watching a scary movie or listening to a murder podcast is perfectly natural and in fact teaches us valuable lessons to enhance our emotional resilience.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapters
1. How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier (00:00:00)
2. Marker 01 (00:44:54)
259 episodes
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