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Human Evolution Lunch Seminar

Lunch lecture by Mathias Clasen, PhD in English and IES member: The Fascination of Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Structure and Function of Horror Stories.

Info about event

Time

Thursday 21 March 2013,  at 13:00 - 13:00

Location

BiRC, C.F. Møllers Alle 8, 8000 Aarhus C, Building 1110-223

Organizer

BiRC and IES

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Horror Stories and Human Evolution

Horror stories are universally popular and highly paradoxical. Why do people react with genuine anxiety to stories that they know to be non-veridical? And why do they seek out entertainment explicitly designed to make them feel bad? In this Human Evolution Lunch Lecture, Mathias Clasen explains how human evolutionary history and cognitive adaptations for danger-management shed light on these questions.