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

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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