Coltan Scrivner

I mean, you are just soaking up everything in your culture.

You're soaking up new skills.

Your brain is using more calories when you're a kid than it ever does when you're an adult because it's just processing like crazy.

And so if you play with fear, you play with anxiety in these playful settings, whether it's a video game or pretend play with your friends or a scary buck goosebumps or a scary movie that's maybe appropriate for kids but still scares them.

They develop those regulation skills because like we talked about at the beginning, you are regulating how afraid you are in order to achieve that sweet spot, even when you're a kid, right?

So you're practicing and developing those tools that will be useful later in life.

Nobody goes to a haunted attraction alone.

Serial killers.

Serial killers, yeah.

You see someone by themselves.

I've done five or six different studies at haunted houses in Denmark and in Detroit and Austin.

I don't know that I've ever seen someone come to one alone.

It's not because they're too scared either necessarily.

It's just not as fun.

Yeah, you want to share the experience with somebody.

And so one of the things, have you ever been to a haunted attraction?

Yes.

Okay, lots of couples go.

And you can see how your partner responds when they are afraid.

So not just how you respond to fear and anxiety, but how do they respond when they're out of their element?