The face of a young girl in the corner of terror. Shadow stalker progress, ax was held high. Heart-pounding along with music like you squirming in seat theatre. Axe silhouetted began to fall …
Psychologists have long theorized about why some people enjoy in the movie scary and has identified “looking for a personality” who are interested in a roller coaster, gambling and extreme sports. Also many adrenaline-charged skew a job as a day trader, test pilot, a brain surgeon and a bomb defusers, find some studies.
Now, the biological differences that neuroscientist found in the brains of different people who love new sensations and the people who shrink from them.
“Humans have a unique situation in which we will be looking for things that frighten us. We must ask, what could make the exposure is beneficial? “said David Zald, a Professor of Psychiatry and psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
A 2008 study by Zald and colleagues found key differences in how the brain sensations and thrill-seekers avoiders handle chemical dopamine, the brain’s pleasure and reward. They have 34 volunteers to answer a questionnaire assessing how much they love the new things and then do a brain scan. People who avoid the thrills have more dopamine autoreceptors, that is to act like built-in brakes for pleasure chemicals. Thrill has several receptors.