BOO! The Science of Scary with Mathias Clasen & Heather Berlin

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Why do we like being scared? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the haunting effects of horror and recreational fear with horror scholar and author, Mathias Clasen, and neuroscientist, Heather Berlin, PhD.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk of your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:19.0	You're a personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	Got with me, my co-host Chuck Knight, Chuck a baby.
0:24.0	Hey Neil.
0:25.0	It's good to see you.
0:30.0	So today Chuck, this is an overdue topic for Star Talk.
0:33.0	I don't know why we didn't do this years ago.
0:35.0	We're going to talk about horror.
0:38.0	In particular, horror movies, horror stories, and why people like it.
0:45.0	That's just weird.
0:47.0	It is weird.
0:49.0	Why do you like being scared out of your gorg?
0:52.0	Why, why, why, what is this?
0:55.0	And believe it or not, there is a person who studies this professionally.
1:01.0	Okay.
1:02.0	As you know, we reach into the academic halls to find people with just the kind of expertise necessary for that topic.
1:09.0	And today we have Matthias Cleisen, I think I pronounced his name right,
1:15.0	and he's director of the, get this, recreational fear lab.
1:21.0	Okay.
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