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Why Do People Like To Be Afraid???
Why Do People Love Horror Movies? Studies Show People Enjoy Being Scared!
ScienceDaily (July 31, 2007) — A bedrock assumption in theories that explain and predict human behavior is people’s motivation to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. How can this be reconciled with the decision to engage in experiences known to elicit negative feelings, such as horror movies" It certainly seems counterintuitive that so many people 
would voluntarily immerse themselves in almost two hours of fear, disgust and terror. "Why do people pay for this?" "How is this enjoyable?"
Investigators generally use one of two theories to explain why people like horror movies. The first is that the person is not actually afraid, but excited by the movie. The second explanation is that they are willing to endure the terror in order to enjoy a euphoric sense of relief at the end. But, a new study by Eduardo Andrade (University of California, Berkeley) and Joel B. Cohen (University of Florida) appearing in the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research argues that neither of these theories is correct.
"We believe that a reevaluation of the two dominant explanations for people’s willingness to consume "negative" experiences (both of which assume that people can not experience negative and positive emotions simultaneously) is in order," explain Andrade and Cohen in their study.
They continue: "The assumption of people’s inability to experience positive and negative affect at the same time is incorrect."
In other words, the authors argue that horror movie viewers are happy to be unhappy. This novel approach to emotion reveals that people experience both negative and positive emotions simultaneously — people may actually enjoy being scared, not just relief when the threat is removed. As the authors put it, "the most pleasant moments of a particular event may also be the most fearful."
Andrade and Cohen developed and utilize a new methodology to track negative and positive feelings at the same time. Their method could apply to other experiences that seem to elicit terror, risk, or disgust, such as extreme sports.
"When individuals who typically choose to avoid the stimuli were embedded in a protective frame of mind, such that there was sufficient psychological disengagement or detachment, they experienced positive feelings while still experiencing fearfulness," the authors explain.
If you are one of those people that likes to get your adrenaline pumping and your heart racing… Well we have a little something for you at the Twisted Haunted House in Dixon Missouri.
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CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Twisted Haunted House, 2 full storys of HELL in Dixon’s oldest, spookiest building!
Twisted Haunted House is coming along nicely! We will Open in Sept in conjunction with Cow Days, We will be open 32 days this season. We will beable to bost the we are the longest, darkest, most Twisted, in your Face Haunted House!! Check us out.
You don’t know it yet but this is really the Front!!
How about this as a logo or painted on the entrance?
A good friend drew this for us we are thinking logo, back of building where the entrace is?? we well see we found som other cool ideas and he is going to draw them up for us!!! cant wait! in the mean time work continues slowly but surley!! Oh and i keep getting more INK heheh im addicted!! will post more pictures soon. J
just wide open space to do as we wish <GRIN>
The front part of the maze is coming along nicely
HHHHMMMMMM I wonder what will go here????
LOL OH yeah I already know
Coming Down the Stairs
Entering the lower part of the maze!!