Coltan Scrivner

We thought those two would pop up because we had some ideas from other research that suggested that, yeah, there's a group that likes the adrenaline and a group that doesn't seem to like it.

Kids are spooky.

I think a huge misunderstanding about kids is that they actually love spooky stuff.

And parents know this intuitively, right?

If you ask them, what kind of games do your kids play when they're pretend playing with others?

It's

like a violent game where they're playing a predator-prey chase game, or there's monsters in the game and they're pretending to be monsters, or there's a scary environment, the lights are off, or they're playing under a blanket.

A little bit.

I mean, boys are a little more likely to engage in that, but at really young ages, like five to eight, I'm not a developmental psychologist, but from what I've read and what I've seen, boys and girls both kind of like scary play.

Going back to this white knuckler thing, there were a group of people who really were afraid, but they still liked horror.

And so the question was, why?

Because there are other people who are really afraid and they don't like it.

That makes sense.

That makes the most sense.

A little of both, which means it's good science, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

But real quick, there was also a third group.

Oh, thank you.

There was a third group that we didn't expect.

This one we called the Dark Copers because they seem to be using scary experiences to deal with difficult emotions or difficult times they were going through in their life.