Fake Fear – Alesia Spicochi

As humans, we feel drawn to find scary images, and finding these things in haunted houses and from scary movies is a safe way to scare ourselves and, therefore, has a good influence on a person’s health. In a CNN article called Go Scare Yourself! It’s Good for You, Jeffrey Goldstein talks about how scaring yourself is not harmful, like when it comes to horror movies, but if you’re in a situation where you’re not sure if you are safe, that’s when there may be negative affects, “Take the scary clown phenomenon that has plagued the United States and Europe. ‘That is not a scare that people enjoy because we don’t know the scary clowns’ motivation. “This plays with the border of what is unpleasant and threatening and may be violent'” (Source E). While being scared can be unsafe and mentally straining, it is not horror movies or manufactured fear that is doing those things. It is the uncertain situations with real fear and risk involved.