People Enjoy Scares for Adrenaline Rush
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Many teens, and some a bit older, will be spending this Halloween visiting a creepy, ghoul-filled haunted house, or watching a gory, horror flick. They'll say they love to shiver in fear and scream in terror.
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This would-be thriller shows no fearsome new way of presenting a haunted house and elicits not one palpitation from audiences paying for a few good jolts.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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SIT down, strap yourself in and get ready for the thrill of a lifetime - again and again and again.  If you're fearless and just live for an adrenaline rush, then Britain's theme parks have some of the fastest, scariest and most gravity-defying rides in the world.
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Ten healthy female students at a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an example of mass hysteria.
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Terror. Not just fear. Not just awe. Not just respect, although there were also healthy doses of all three. The best word to describe the feeling Jimmy Walker brought to me as a fervent Boston College basketball fan was terror.
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Admiring people who can just put their heads down and blithely plow through to get their way.
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Researchers have found a way to induce  out-of-body experiences using virtual-reality goggles, helping  to explain a phenomenon reported by about one in 10 people.
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Fear is a handy evolutionary mechanism for staying out of danger. So why do we get off on it sometimes?
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These days, the surprise  with Stephen King is not the story itself. Like so many others,  this one is about a group of ordinary people, mostly strangers,  who are thrown together and then forced to defend themselves  against some demon force that threatens them with horrific  deaths.
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For some, the terrors and techniques of mingling at parties in this season are more daunting than holiday shopping.
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This year there seem to be more movies than usual that, whether or not they intend to provoke fear, take fear as their subject.
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The fright film "The Messengers," about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.
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The movie âThemâ revels in atmosphere, using long unbroken takes and ambient sound to lull you into complacency before unleashing nerve-jangling shocks.
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We&#39;ve pretty much seen it all - to the point that nothing really bothers or frightens most viewers these days. And ever since Sept. 11, 2001, the idea of being scared by a movie seems trivial and silly.
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Also: Scientists activate that creepy feeling. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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It is something that the makers of horror films have instinctively known for years - seeing someone wide-eyed with fear scares the living daylights out the rest of us who are watching.