🎃Why We Love Being Scared: The Psychology of Halloween Fear🎃
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We laugh at fake monsters to forget the real ones.
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Halloween began as Samhain — a ritual of life, death, and darkness — but at Halloween, fear has become a product marketed as fear .
Psychologists call it the safe thrill effect : we enjoy being scared when we know we’re safe.
It’s not fear we love — it’s control .
In a chaotic world, Halloween lets us buy a dose of danger, dressed in costume, candy and fun.
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