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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Why do we watch and like horror films? Despite a century of horror film making and entertainment, little research has examined the human motivation to watch fictional horror and how horror film influences individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional
G. Neil Martin
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Surfing uncertainty with screams: predictive processing, error dynamics and horror films. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Despite tremendous efforts in psychology, neuroscience and media and cultural studies, it is still something of a mystery why humans are attracted to fictional content that is horrifying, disgusting or otherwise aversive. While the psychological benefits
Miller M, White B, Scrivner C.
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Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror
Psychological Science, 2020 Haunted attractions are illustrative examples of recreational fear in which people voluntarily seek out frightening experiences in pursuit of enjoyment. We present findings from a field study at a haunted-house attraction where visitors between the ages ...
Marc Malmdorf Andersen +2 more
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La cultura del horror en las sociedades avanzadas : de la sociedad centrípeta a la sociedad centrífuga [PDF]
Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), 2005 El presente artículo expone los principales resultados de una investigación realizada con el objeto de analizar el papel que cumplen las emociones colectivas en el mantenimiento del orden social.
Bericat Alastuey, Eduardo
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Desplazamientos. Una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de escuchar el horror [PDF]
Kamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2013 Resumen: Las relaciones que existen entre la poesía y la representación del fenómeno de la Shoah han sido ampliamente estudiadas por la filosofía y los estudios literarios, interesados en todo lo que concierne a la memoria y al recuerdo del horror.
Noemí Acedo Alonso
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Awe or horror: differentiating two emotional responses to schema incongruence
Cognition and Emotion, 2019 Experiences that contradict one's core concepts (e.g. of the world, people, the self) elicit intense emotions. Such schema incongruence can elicit awe, wherein experiences that are too vast to understand with existing cognitive schemata cause one to feel
Pamela Marie Taylor, Yukiko Uchida
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Decoding Fear: Exploring User Experiences in Virtual Reality Horror Games [PDF]
International Symposium of Chinese CHI, 2023 This preliminary study investigated user experiences in VR horror games, highlighting fear-triggering and gender-based differences in perception. By utilizing a scientifically validated and specially designed questionnaire, we successfully collected ...
He Zhang +3 more
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From Social Allegory to Political Statement: Academic Reception of American Horror of the 21st Century [PDF]
Антиномии, 2023 For a long time, horror was an entertaining cinema genre. Since the late 1970s, critics and scholars have gradually started to examine it in terms of social and political content, often conveyed allegorically.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023 Both fear and horror have been extensively explored as universal unpleasant emotions with significant effects on psychological well-being. It is believed that horror is the feeling aroused when watching a horror film, and a sense of suspense and ...
Ferdi Bozkurt +1 more
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