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Ice Nine Kills: Hip To Be Scared (Horror Movie Science with Sarah Rose Cavanagh)

Hip To Be Scared: What Science Can Tell Us About Our Relationship to Recreational Fear

By Sing For Science

5:01 AM EDT on September 27, 2023

Recorded live at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA on 9/18/23: Heavy Metal frontman and horror movie expert Spencer Charnas chats with psychologist Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh about his favorite horror movies, why we like to be scared, the difference between fictional and real violence, monster theory, recreational fear lab research and more.

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