Why do some people still watch ghost movies even though they are obviously scared?

With the evolution of human beings, people have given more symbolic meaning to the darkness, especially after the establishment of religious and mythological systems, we are constantly receiving the message that darkness represents the unknown, ghosts, and negative things such as harm and death.

In fact, they really want to see it, but they just don't dare, even if they watch it with others, they will keep screaming, and they will scare others, and they also want to see and exercise their guts, but they may be cranky.

This is just like the brand of our cigarette that says: Smoking is harmful to health, I know that it is not good, but there are still many people who smoke this, so this may be a normal state for us.

Although horror movies are very scary, they can arouse everyone's curiosity, and no one knows what is going on behind them, so they especially want to watch it.

I think it may be that you need to watch horror movies to release your emotions, it is possible that you are unhappy right now, and being afraid can relieve your sad emotions.

Because people are curious about how scary the content of horror movies is, they can't help but watch them.

Fear is a negative emotion, and many young people in life like to watch horror movies, which is really incomprehensible. In fact, horror movies are good for people's psychology.

First of all, when watching horror movies, people will devote most of their attention to the plot and forget about the troubles of daily life for a while. After the tension, the mental and physical body will welcome a longer period of relaxation, which can help release stress. Secondly, Freud, a master of psychology, believed that deep in the human heart, there is an instinct to attack and an instinct to die, and there is an impulse to destroy everything and obtain true peace, such as the impulse to jump when someone stands on a high place.

Salder, a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University in the United States, proposed that human beings have a special mentality of pursuing fear, and horror movies satisfy this psychology. Again, life and death are a major difficulty for human beings, no one can tell what death is like, horror movies can use abnormal performance techniques to map people's subconscious and answer people's psychological confusion. Finally, the American psychologist Zilman found that the more scared women are when watching horror movies, the more they are loved by men; And the calmer the reaction, the more popular the men, the more popular they are with women.

Therefore, horror films can stimulate gender traits and make oneself more attractive.

It's okay to watch horror movies once in a while to spice up your life. But most of the props for horror movies are selected from everyday items, such as videotapes, **, hair, mirrors, elevators, faucets, etc. Returning to reality from the movie, seeing these things at home and at work, it is easy to evoke associations with horror plots, give yourself negative psychological hints, scare yourself, and even affect your life, so it is not recommended to go long-term.

It should be reminded that children have a strong ability to imitate, lack of judgment about the violence in the play, and may imitate the model in life; The elderly and children are most susceptible to negative psychological cues; Excessive mood swings in pregnant women can lead to poor fetal development, and these groups of people should definitely not watch horror movies.

Ah Mei is a super coward, usually as long as someone next to her someone tells a ghost story, she will tremble with fright, and she doesn't dare to go to the toilet, but she loves to watch horror movies.

Don't think that Mei is a masochist and likes to be frightened. In fact, some studies have confirmed that people in horror movies experience two emotions of happiness and unhappiness at the same time, on the one hand, they experience the excitement of being scared half to death for the horror plot in the movie when watching the movie; On the other hand, they are willing to endure this fear, and after the movie is over, enjoy that kind of relieved **

Some people describe the happiest moment of watching a horror movie, that is, the most terrifying moment. Experts say that in fact, the main purpose of watching horror movies is to "scare themselves" to achieve the purpose of releasing stress.

In addition, some scientists believe that the reason why some people like to watch horror movies is because it provides them with a safe environment to experience fear **From the analysis of the body's function, the amygdala of the brain responds to the input information and releases hormones, but the prefrontal cortex of the brain provides additional protective structures, letting us know that we are not in danger, and can balance adrenaline.

However, there are still many psychologists who believe that horror movies will do more harm than good to the human body, and will bring considerable sequelae and negative effects. For example, a study has shown that horror movies only have 20% of the positive impact on the human body, while the negative impact accounts for more than 80%. Preparation.

Monitoring experiments conducted on moviegoers have found that when horror images appear, they will have reactions such as rapid heartbeat and sweating, as if they are experiencing fear, and such fear can even lead to fatal crises. Martin A., chief of neurology at a hospital in Boston, USASamuels has received hundreds of reports of deaths, all of which were due to fear rather than trauma.

Researchers have also noted that the number of deaths from heart attacks rises after ** or other disasters, with a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology finding that within three days of the 911 terrorist attacks in New York, 11 hospitals in a county in Massachusetts had three times the usual number of heart attacks.

In addition, there are practical examples that prove that someone was frightened and died during the ** horror movie scene. According to foreign reports, there were once 3 horror films** that scared people to death. For example, a 65-year-old Indian experienced chest tightness and discomfort during the well-known horror film "Li Yin Mansion 2", and then died on the way to the hospital.

Another film about the last 12 hours before the crucifixion of Jesus, "The Passion: The Last", also has an accident in which 2 viewers die, one of whom died of a heart attack when Jeres was crucified.