{"id":30132,"date":"2020-08-13T19:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30132"},"modified":"2020-08-13T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:12:54","slug":"its-all-in-the-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/13\/its-all-in-the-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All In The Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (11 July 2020):<\/p>\n

Everyone is entitled to one good scare \u2013 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, a study reveals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHorror users tended to have less psychological distress,\u201d says Coltan Scrivner at the University of Chicago. …<\/p>\n

Fans of horror movies were less prone to negative mental states. \u201cWhich suggested to us, maybe with horror it\u2019s about emotion regulation,\u201d says Scrivner. Watching scary movies \u201callows me to give myself the experience of being afraid and then conquering that fear\u201d. This may be one of the underlying reasons for\u00a0people\u2019s fascination with scary stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prepper genres, which all feature society\u2019s institutions collapsing, had an additional benefit. \u201cWe find that same decrease in psychological distress, but you also find an increase in preparedness,\u201d says Scrivner. The team found a similar pattern for pandemic-themed movies. \u201cPeople who\u2019ve seen none at all were much less prepared than people who said they\u2019d seen many.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of it will be in the promptings of considering how things can go wrong, rather than how they can go right. Consider a fan of romantic comedies, searching for the right person to date, the anticipation of the pleasures and ecstasies, all that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the horror fan is screaming “Don’t open that door where the fumes are coming,” because they’ve learned to think ahead on a more realistic level. The researchers note that just watching horror movies isn’t enough, as if seeing The Omen<\/strong><\/em> would be helpful in preventing social anxiety. No, it takes an active interest, in my opinion, the inquisitive mind that looks at how things may go wrong.<\/p>\n

And figure out how bad it can get.<\/p>\n

It’s the unknown that causes anxiety; the horror fan who thinks they have the worst figured out, right or wrong<\/em>, can now take actions to mitigate the worst. And that leads to less anxiety.<\/p>\n

I am not a horror fan, although I must say I enjoyed Alien<\/strong><\/em> and Aliens<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NewScientist (11 July 2020): Everyone is entitled to one good scare \u2013 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, a study reveals. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30133,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions\/30133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}