Why do we love scary movies?

Podcast: What's Up Docs? · BBC Radio 4

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

Welcome to What's Up Docs?, the podcast where doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore the ideas shaping our health and wellbeing. In this episode, they turn their attention to recreational fear - the kind we experience when we actively seek out things that make us afraid, for pleasure! Joined by Professors Marc Andersen and Mathias Clasen, co-directors of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark, they explore what recreational fear is, and what happens in the body when we experience it. Chris and Xand also find out what the...