Science Explained - Why Do People Enjoy Watching Horror Movies?

Published: July 28, 2007, 2:58 pm

The cheapest formula: blood and guts everywhere, flies and spiders that grow as big as a cow and suck you up. The pervert human nature is also revealed also through our pleasure of watching horror movies. Why do we pay for two hours of fear, disgust and terror, which are elicit negative feelings? (not to mention in most cases the bad taste ) Two classical theories are employed to explain this. The former states that the person is not actually afraid, but turned on by the movie. The latter hypothesis claims that people are eager to endure the terror just to experience a euphoric sense of relief at the end. But a new research by Eduardo Andrade (University of California, Berkeley) and Joel B. Cohen (University of Florida) challenges both these theories. We believe that a reevaluation of the two dominant explanations for people's willingness to consume negative experiences (both of which assume that

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