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Why do we love being scared so much?

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    Le point J
  • 31 October 2022
  • Ron Stoop
    • CHUV
    • Biologie et de médecine, UNIL
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Watching horror movies, visiting haunted houses are little pleasures for some of us. Others hate the emotion. What happens in our brains when we're terrified?

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