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It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response (lemmy.ca)

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What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.

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Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

My guess would be that after we get scared the brain goes "good job, you survived, here's some endorphins". That way we enjoy getting scared because happiness follows

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I imagine that'd be just as fucked up to aliens:

Their brain injects feelgood drugs to reward them for being scared??? and they got addicted?!?!

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