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"Lots of people enjoy fear enjoy scary situations because it leaves them with a sense of confidence after it's over"

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"One of the main hormones released during scary and thrilling activities is dopamine, and it turns out some individuals may get more kick from this dopamine response than others do."

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"To really enjoy a scary situation, we have to know we're in a safe environment. It's all about triggering the amazing fight-or-flight response to experience the flood of adrenaline, endorphins, and dopamine, but in a completely safe space"

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"To really enjoy a scary situation, we have to know we're in a safe environment. It's all about triggering the amazing fight-or-flight response to experience the flood of adrenaline, endorphins, and dopamine, but in a completely safe place."

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"These scary stories provided, and continue to deliver, intrigue, exhilaration, and a jolt of excitement to our lives."

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"Basically some peoples brains lack what Zald describes as brakes on the dopamine release and re-uptake in the brain"

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David Zald shows that people differ in their chemical response to thrilling situations.

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We can learn to fear this was shown in an experiment in the 1920's when they made a little boy deathly scared of white rabbits.

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"Not everyone enjoys being afraid, and I don't think it's a stretch to say that no one wants to experience a truly life-threatening situation.:

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Haunted houses are great at this-they deliver a startle scare by triggering one of our senses with different sounds, air blasts, and even smells.

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" And really anything that doesn't make sense or causes us some sort of dissonance, whether it is cognitive or aesthetic, is going to be scary."

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"so we're going to remember the people we'er with. If it was a good experience ,then we'll remember them fondly and feel close to them, more so than if we were to meet them during some neutral unexciting event"

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In the text it states that "Each culture has its own superhero monsters- the Chupacabra (South America), the Loch Ness Monster, the Yōkai (supernatural monsters from Japanese folklore), Alps (German nightmare creatures) - but they all have a number of characteristics in common. Monsters are defying the general laws of nature in some way" (Ringo 93)

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one of the main hormones released during scary and thrilling activities is dopamine

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"...some people's brain's lack what Zald describes as "brakes" on the dopamine release and re-uptake in the brain. This means others are really going to enjoy thrilling, scary and risking situations, while others not so much."

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"The chemicals that are released during fight-or-flight can work like glue to build strong memories of scary experiences"

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Some people love fear because it produces strong emotional responses, and those responses work to build stronger relationships and memories. When were happy or afraid we're releasing powerful hormones like oxycontin, that are working to make these moments stick in our brain.

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"We want to imagen a life the goes on after we die. Or better yet, figure out a way to live forever "

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"We're social and emotional beings. We need each other in times of stress, so the fact that our bodies have evolved to make sure we feel close to those we are with when afraid makes sense."

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"We're social and emotional beings."

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"These scary stories provided and continue to deliver, intrigue, exhilaration, and a jolt of excitement to our lives."

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It says that when people leave these scary situations they feel like they have a sense of accomplishment. This is imagination overcoming reason because you are scared so you feel like there's danger even though you know nothing is really going to happen to you.

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(According to Dr Kerr )"Humans have been scaring themselves and each other since the birth of the species, through all kinds of methods like storytelling, jumping off cliffs,and popping out to startle each other from recesses of some dark cave."

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"There is a strong evidence that this isn't just about personal choice, but our own brain chemistry"

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"We're social and emotional being. We need each other in times of stress, so the fact that our bodies have evolved to male we feel close to those we are with when afraid makes sense."

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"To really enjoy a scary situation, we have to know we're in a safe place environment."

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these senses are directly tied to our fear response and activate the physical reaction but out brain has time to process the fact that these are not real threats

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humans are obsessed with death we simply have a hard time wrapping our mind around what happens when we die

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"These scary stories provided, and continue to deliver, intrigue, exhilaration, and a jolt of excitement to our lives."

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"And really anything that doesn't make sense or causes us some sort of dissonance, whether it is cognitive or aesthetic, is going to be scary (axe-wielding animals, masked faces, contorted bodies)."

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why people are going to really enjoy thrilling, scary, and risky situations.

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"We're social and emotional being. We need each other in times of stress, so the fact that our bodies have evolved to male we feel close to those we are with when afraid makes sense."