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How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos · 41
Halloween isn't just costumes and candy. It's also a time when we indulge our interest in the scary and macabre. But there's also a taboo about gory horror movies and gruesome true crime shows - we often feel that being interested in blood and violence is unhealthy. The opposite is possibly true. Psychologist Coltan…
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