It's officially spooky season so we thought we'd celebrate this with a 2020 study about scary movies, psychology and COVID-19. (Can you think of a more bone-chilling combination of variables?) This week's study is called, "Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic." Join us for some tricks and treats as Paola and Taylor break down this study that sought to explore if interest in horror films and trait morbid curiosity relates to pandemic preparedness and psychological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We promise this episode will give you pumpkin to talk about.
**Side note: we misquote a Blink 182 lyric as being by Good Charlotte or My Chemical Romance. We deeply apologize to everyone in the 90s pop-punk/emo community for this grave and deeply unforgivable error**
Our study today is brought to you by Coltan Scrivnera, John A. Johnson, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, and Mathias Clasen. You can find the study here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110397
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