Coltan Scrivner

Yeah, but people still do regulate their fear and their anxiety, even in horror movies, right?

Sometimes you need it to be scarier.

So what do you do?

You turn down the lights.

You really get immersed in it, right?

You imagine it could be real.

Yeah.

And then other times you need to dampen that, right?

You need to close your eyes or cover your eyes, watch it with the lights on, watch it with a friend, do things that make it less scary.

So you're always trying to regulate.

A lot of the research I'm doing, I think that's a really magical type of play because what you're doing is you are practicing regulating your anxiety and regulating your fear, which is something you can use later in the real world.

Like immersion therapy.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Emotional exposure therapy.

And that was their heart rate and their expectation of how they rated it, how scary it was.

I've done a couple of studies at this haunted house.

Okay.

And we tried answering that question a little later.

We didn't use biochemical measures in part because this would have been 2021 and people were still a little weird about spitting in tubes.