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Horror Fiction As A Cognitive Stimulant

Once the movie plot has hooked the audience, the roller-coaster ride can feel good, and one can ‘get in the groove’. Screaming or gasping in horror, imagining the terror of the story that one is indulged in, is the reason why many people find reprieve in horror movies.

Horror movies also act as a training simulation for real-world scenarios, making us better prepared for an apocalyptic situation, for instance.

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Neuroticism, a personality trait that includes high-anxiety, makes a person move towards psychological themes that are associated with it.

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  • Threat takes hold of our visual attention, cognition, memory, learning, and our words and actions.
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