Fear and enjoyment can coexist in frightening leisure activities that become enjoyable when they offer forms of arousal dynamics that are “just right.”
Horror fans seem to be coping better with the stress of the pandemic.
Why are people sometimes gruesomely violent? It may have to do with how it affects their perceived formidability
Can evolutionary psychology offer a framework for a general theory of individual differences?
Why did horror movies and pandemic films surge in popularity during the COVID19 outbreak? It may have to do with morbid curiostity.
In this study, we used eye tracking to investigate how people gather visual information from scenes of violence
How does the creative output of novelists compare to scientific theorists?