Why do we jump when we get scared?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever jumped right out of your seat when watching a scary movie, you know that sometimes your body has a reaction to being surprised or frightened. One of our listeners wanted to know why that happens, and we asked neurologist Sarah Benish to help us understand. Got a startlingly good Moment of Um question for us? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll try to be brave enough to find the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:06.0	Answering those questions that make you go,
0:08.5	The moment of om, um, um, um, um. The moment of om comes to you from APM Studios.
0:25.6	I'm Rosie DuPont.
0:27.4	Imagine this.
0:30.5	You're curled up with your family on the couch watching a movie.
0:33.4	Everybody has a cozy blanket and you're sharing a big bowl of freshly made popcorn.
0:38.7	Relaxing, right?
0:40.3	But then, in the movie, one of the characters jumps out from behind a door and yells, boom.
0:46.4	Everybody screams and jumps.
0:48.5	Popcorn goes flying.
0:50.0	The dog stands up and looks at you like your bonkers.
0:53.1	It's just a movie.
0:54.1	So why did everybody jump? My name is Shifra. The dog stands up and looks at you like you're bonkers. It's just a movie.
0:56.4	So why did everybody jump?
0:58.0	My name is Shifra.
1:00.8	I am 10 years old and I live in Sydney, Australia.
1:04.5	My question is, why do people jump when they're scared?
1:15.5	The simple answer is that it's a reflex reaction that our brain has learned. My name is Sarah Benish.
1:16.6	I'm a neurologist, which is a doctor that takes care of brain conditions and spinal cord
1:22.8	conditions, and I work at the University of Minnesota.
1:26.0	There's a response that we call the fight or flight response.
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