IT'S terrifying. It's horrible. It's unavoidable. A new study reveals our love of horror is deeply burnt into our DNA. Horror. Disgust. Fear. It seems odd that we would deliberately place ourselves in a theatre, knowing full well we're about to be shocked to the core. But a research paper by a PhD student in Denmark shows we may have an ingrained urge to learn how to adapt to stressful situations. This motivation, buried deep within our survival instincts, emerges in force at the prospect of a new, fearful situation, Mathias Clasen of Aarhus University reports. Thus the appeal of horror movies, books, comics and theatre - even though we're unlikely to run into a lion or human...
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