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News & Views: Things that Go Bump in the Lab: Halloween and the science of fear
Posted on October 30, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Unit1, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

By collecting data on guests who visit a haunted house in Pittsburgh, scientists are trying to learn a little bit about what scares us, and why some people enjoy this sensation enough to seek it out.

Listen to the story at NPR.org.