How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier

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  This is an iHeart podcast.

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  for living better, loving stronger, and taking charge of your well-being.

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  Listen to the Tamsin Show wherever you get your podcasts because it's time to own it.

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  Pushkin.

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  Halloween is my favorite holiday.

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  I love carving pumpkins and seeing my neighbors' goofy decorations.

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  I love seeing people in costumes and casually running into superheroes and fairies out on the street.

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  I love cider donuts and Halloween candy and pumpkin spice anything,

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  and I love that feeling of cozy nostalgia.

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  But oddly enough, there is one big thing I don't get about spooky season.

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  The spooky part.

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  You see, I'm a complete scaredy cat.

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  I can't handle haunted houses or horror films.

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  And as a professor who studies the science of happiness,

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  I struggle to wrap my mind around why people might enjoy this stuff.

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  But as a Halloween fan, I also spend a lot of time wondering, am I missing out?

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  Could I learn to enjoy the spooky stuff?

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  Could leaning into fear make me happier?

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  So this Halloween, I decided to ask the expert.

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  I'm Colton Scrivner.

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