Some people just don’t get it. You tell them you love horror movies and their faces contort in confusion - maybe a little disgust. How could anyone enjoy being scared? It’s a question that the ...

The Big Ideas: What Do We Fear? Seeking out the scary and the spooky can be a fun and healthy way to build resilience and learn to cope with stress. Share full article Doreen Haviland screams while ...

Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how humans respond to – and even actively seek out... Why do we like haunted houses? The science behind why ...

Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and ...

I grew up scared of everything: death, the dark, my own face in the bathroom mirror. Eventually, I learned my bottomless fear belied several anxiety and anxiety-adjacent disorders that I’ve been ...

I once had a panic attack in central London. Not the best place to feel like your heart is pounding out of your chest and your vision is narrowing as the stress of work, relationships, and the early ...

A new study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed. Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an ...