Why is this disappointing news, though? Why are we so drawn to being scared in a controlled setting like a haunted house or even just watching a scary film? Are we okay? The British Psychological ...

Every Halloween, people flock to haunted houses ... lost in the woods alone with no help in sight - bad; being scared lost in a haunted house with your friends, with professionals no more than ...

“To really enjoy being afraid ... This means that people will actually start to tune them out as they get used to them, so in an ideal haunted house, startling effects should be spaced out.

Science can explain why some people love ... good and bad scare? Fear ceases to be fun when you feel out of control, Kerr said. Consider the choice to go into a haunted house: You do not know ...

Virtually everyone knows what it's like to feel really scared: A pounding heartbeat ... or prowling through a dark-as-night haunted house on Halloween, some people actually revel in feeling ...

It’s a classic haunted house story, but there’s something about ... machinery – they exploit topics and images we already fear,” Professor Hank Davis noted in an article on The Psychologist.