News and Tribune: Psychologist discusses people who seek out scary experiences

Release Date: October 28, 2011 This content is archived.

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A column in the Jefferson, Ind., News and Tribune about why people deliberately seek out scary experiences as a form of entertainment at Halloween quotes Mark Kristal, professor of psychology, who said fear is adaptive. "It's like pain," he said. "We may consider it negative, but it serves a very important function, and that is to mobilize us when confronted by danger and threat."

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