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Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear

This document summarizes an interview with Dr. Margee Kerr, a sociologist who studies fear responses. In the interview, Dr. Kerr explains that humans have an innate fear response that releases hormones like dopamine to prepare the body to fight or flee dangerous situations. However, some individuals experience more of a "rush" from these chemical releases than others due to differences in brain chemistry. Dr. Kerr also notes that we can only enjoy fearful experiences like haunted houses when we know we are truly safe, citing an experiment where a baby was conditioned to fear rabbits.

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Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear

This document summarizes an interview with Dr. Margee Kerr, a sociologist who studies fear responses. In the interview, Dr. Kerr explains that humans have an innate fear response that releases hormones like dopamine to prepare the body to fight or flee dangerous situations. However, some individuals experience more of a "rush" from these chemical releases than others due to differences in brain chemistry. Dr. Kerr also notes that we can only enjoy fearful experiences like haunted houses when we know we are truly safe, citing an experiment where a baby was conditioned to fear rabbits.

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Why do some brains enjoy fear?

Definition:
Claim:
assertion of a position or truth, in order omit be credible those claims must be supported
with evidence .

Interview:
a meeting at which information is obtained (as by a reporter, television commentator, or
pollster) from a person.

Background:
The explained that we humans have variety of survival mechanisms, if our brains couldn’t
detected fear we wouldn’t be able to avoid them; our fear response release a flight or fight
that make us stronger, quicker and more alert.

Comprehension check
1- According to dr. Kerr how are our bodies affected by things that scare us?
some individuals feels more affects from the dopamine response than others do,
because theirs brains lacks “breaks” on the dopamine realize and re-uptake is the brain.
2- According to Dr. Kerr, what critical information do we need to have in order to
enjoy a scary situation?
We have to know we are in a safe environment.
3- What happened to baby Albert?
Baby Albert is the example of this. Researchers experimenting with the fear response
in the 1920s made the poor child afraid of white rabbits. So we know that we can be
taught to fear. This means our socialization and the society in which we are raised are
going to have a lot to do with what we find scary.

Reading strategies

Notice:
This is a short interview made by Allegra Ringo that interviewed Dr. Margee Kerr that is a
sociologist at a haunted house, asking her questions about our brain and it’s connection to
fear and how it’s affected.

Annotate:
Vocabulary:

Cristine Mendoza, Sofia De León 10°p


sociologist: study human behavior, interaction, and organization.
dopamine: is a chemical released in the brain that makes you feel good. - dissonance: lack
of agreement.
cognitive: relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity.

Key passage: -
Paragraph 4: “to really enjoy scary situation we have to know we’re in a safe environment.

Paragraph 5: “Haunted houses are grate, they deliver a startle scare by triggering one of our
senses.” - paragraph 8: “Humans are obsessed with dead;” “We want to imagine a life that
goes on after we die.”

Connect
I knew and it is known that people have different reactions to fear. Sometimes remain
stunned or in shock without moving and others scream and run as fast as they can. In the
interview he is excited" the natural high from the Fight-or-flight response can feel great.
There is strong evidence that this is about our brain chemistry. Research from David Zald
shows that people have different chemical responses to thrills. One of the main hormones
released during scary and thrilling activities is dopamine. it turns out some people may get
a greater kick from this dopamine response than others do." and I didn't know why the
different reactions were but I thought that it was because of the personality of each one.

Respond(summary)
Why do some brains enjoy fear? It is an interview about fear. This ionterviewe shows five
questions. The first one says: that people reaction in different ways against fear and that it
was not something of attitude but it was a matter of the chemistry of our brain. He also
mentions the fight or flight response.
In the second question, he argues about the conditions in which we have to be in order to be
scared in a funny way. Human beings enjoy fear when they are experimenting fear but
knowing that it exists in a safe environment.
Later in the third question: they tell us about the similar characteristics that monsters or
scary creatures have in different countries. That most of the time the fear is because they
are something unknown, or it is something that is also closely associated with death. They
also mention other data such as fear for recreation is not something from now if not from
years ago but lately technology has been used a lot to create this feeling.

Personal experience

Cristine Mendoza, Sofia De León 10°p


Sofía de León: I was around 5 years old and my dad and brother loved watching scary
movies and I don’t remember clearly what movie it was, probably one of paranormal
activity but I want to be with them so I decide to watch the movie and it was the longest 2
hours of pure fear and scare that I ever felt in my life.
Cristine Mendoza: The first time I went to Disney , my brother was so excited to visit and
rid ethe roller coaster. And I too. But I was so scared I cry all the waiting line that was
about 1 hour. Then we finally was our time to get I was more scared but my mother hug me
and said that all is going to be fine. And I still was scared but I know I was in a safe
environment.

Cristine Mendoza, Sofia De León 10°p

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