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	Podcast:		The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
	Episode:		How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:44:57
	Publish Date:		2025-10-27 04:05:00
	Description:		Halloween isn't just costumes and candy. It's also a time when we indulge our interest in the scary and macabre. But there's also a taboo about gory horror movies and gruesome true crime shows - we often feel that being interested in blood and violence is unhealthy. The opposite is possibly true. Psychologist Coltan Scrivner (author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away) says that watching a scary movie or listening to a murder podcast is perfectly natural and in fact teaches us valuable lessons to enhance our emotional resilience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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