How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier

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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