The science of fright: Why we love to be scared
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By Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University and Linda Saab, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University. Scary pumpkins are the least of what frightens us at Halloween, a day devoted to being frightened. asife/Shutterstock.com Fear may be as old as life on Earth.