Is Horror the Most Divisive Genre? Behavioral Scientist Coltan Scrivner on the Science of Fear

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Horror is the least liked genre, and also the most loved. Behavioral scientist and horror producer Coltan Scrivner explains why there's almost no one in the middle. Coltan Scrivner is a psychologist at Arizona State University, a researcher with the Recreational Fear Lab in Denmark, creator of the Morbid Curiosity Scale, and author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away. He also founded the Nightmare in the Ozarks Film Festival and runs the Eureka Springs Zombie Crawl. In Part 2 of our Unpacking Horror series, Coltan gives us his definition of horror (i...