Education & Psychology

Why Do We Love Horrors?   Really, what makes us getting addicted to dreadful novels, spine-chilling rides, and scary movies? The obvious answer would be, perhaps, we like to be frightened. But why do we like terrifying stuff when, from time to time, we already experience some moments of hair-raising fear and heart-pounding anxiety in our real lives anyway? Psychologists answer: we choose to expose ourselves to any immense fear if we are assured it wouldn’t hurt us in real. In other words, while reading a terrifying novel and watching a petrifying movie, we actually enjoy, not the horror itself, but our sense of being perfectly secured from it! Also, a horror-loving reader or viewer always has the choice of closing a storybook if it is too dreadful to handle or leaving a cinema hall if the movie is scary to the point of being disturbing. Experts think horror novels and movies have a taste for both our minds and body. The blood-showering scenes in movies gratify our instinc...