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it's monday october 31st, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Dispatches from the recreational fear lab on why being scared might be a healthy thing. And the raucous Halloween parties Queen Victoria used to throw in Scotland.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Perhaps you spent this past month watching a few more horror movies than usual.

Revisiting some old classics or maybe watching the new Halloween Ends

or Guillermo del Toro's

Netflix anthology series, Cabinet of Curiosities. Maybe you even hit up a haunted house

or some other vaguely spooky-themed activity. Or perhaps you spent the month doing your best

to avoid all of those things because you prefer not to be scared, prefering pumpkin patches and

hocus pocus to houses of horror and Freddie Kruger. What is it, though, that makes some people

love being scared? Researchers at Rhouse University's recreational fear lab have been trying to find out.

Their research center in Denmark conducts lab studies, survey studies, and real-world empirical studies to understand why humans enjoy

recreational fear. Recreational fear is described by the researchers on their website and in an

article they wrote which was recently republished

in Slate, as all those examples I listed above, scary movies, haunted houses, but also

roller coasters, true crime tales, ghost stories, smaller stakes feats of daring athleticism,

and even babies playing peek-a-boo or small children playing hide and seek.

Essentially, it's anything that can spark fear, but is still mostly done from a safe distance,

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