Coltan Scrivner
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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.
So horror helped them kind of get over their anxiety or their depression or existential questions they had.
In that it interrupted the pattern they were stuck in.
That's part of it.
But also horror deals in those emotions, right?
Horror deals in anxiety.
It deals in depression.
It deals in threats and danger and awful things that happen.
And I think it just helps to play that out.
Of course.
And some of the biochemical explanations come into play there.
It's like, I got through this.
I didn't enjoy the fear necessarily, but man, overcoming it sure feels good.
Okay.
Yeah, this is before I had really done much work on morbid curiosity.