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Tue. 09/22 - Horror Fans Fare Better During the Pandemic

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

A new study has found that fans of horror movies are having an easier time coping with the pandemic.

0:49.8

The woman who serves as the Queen of England's Body Double,

0:54.9

a new species of dinosaur discovered with perfectly preserved fossils in China,

1:00.4

and a few ways to get your nature fix from the National Park Service,

1:05.1

including one that could make you $50,000 richer.

1:09.9

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:14.9

A new study has found that people who are fans of watching horror movies are faring well

1:21.4

mental health-wise during the pandemic. Published recently in the journal Personality and Individual

1:27.0

Differences, the study conducted by

1:29.0

Danish and American researchers, asked 310 participants a series of questions about their

1:35.0

movie and TV diet as well as their current emotional state. This was conducted back in April,

1:41.3

and the participants were questioned again a month later with similar

1:44.3

results. And those results? People who self-reported as fans of horror films and regularly

1:50.7

engaged with frightening fictional phenomena experienced lower levels of psychological distress

1:57.4

during the early part of the pandemic, compared to participants who watched other genres of film and TV.

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