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Everyone knows someone — or maybe is that person — who shuts their eyes tight during the scary parts of a horror film and forces their friend to go first in the haunted house. Others avoid scary ...

Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how humans respond to – and even ...