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There are certain things everyone has an innate fear of across cultures, like death, spiders, and disease. However, people can also be conditioned to fear things they don’t have an innate fear of, such as white rabbits, in the case of Baby Albert.

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People’s brains react to fear differently.

Why do people differ in their chemical responses?

People differ in their chemical responses because some people’s brains don’t remove the dopamine released as quickly as others.

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People need to know they are not in real danger, in order to enjoy being scared.

What do haunted houses do that keeps people from feeling truly unsafe?

Haunted houses give people a little extra time to process each scare, so that their brain can move on, and they don’t feel like they’re in real danger.

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The Russian Ice Slides were one of the earliest instances of people scaring themselves for fun.

How did the Russian Ice Slides evolve over time?

Wooden beams, artificial mountains, and, eventually, scary pictures were added.

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Fear is often portrayed negatively in media, but in real life, it’s a complex emotion. Many people enjoy scaring themselves on purpose, but the same things, like movies, rollercoasters, and haunted houses, that they use to do this can be traumatizing for other people. Different people have different chemical fear reactions, because for some people, the dopamine released by fear takes longer to be processed by the brain. People have been scaring themselves for centuries, but it only recently became a big business, and we now know more about fear than ever, including that it can be either innate or learned.