By Michael Marshall
Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy
Everyone’s entitled to one good scare – and it may be good for us. People who watch a lot of horror films, and those who are morbidly curious about unpleasant subjects, seem to be more psychologically resilient to the covid-19 pandemic.
“Horror users tended to have less psychological distress,” says Coltan Scrivner at the University of Chicago.
The research was prompted by a question from New Scientist’s news editor Penny Sarchet. In a Twitter conversation with horror researcher Mathias Clasen …
