Why do some people like to be scared?

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Are you one of those people who likes being scared?
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▼ Chills tickle the back of your neck and spine, your heart thuds faster and faster in your chest, you open your eyes wide as you clutch your arms to your center and enter the eerie darkness of the haunted house.
Haunted houses, horror movies and creepy costumes are hallmarks of Halloween, and for most folks, those fun but terrifying activities come and go with the season. But some people will continue to chase after similar heart-pumping, fear-inducing thrills year-round.
Those types of thrill-seeking people who thrive in scary situations have a specific sensation-seeking personalitytrait, said Kenneth Carter, a clinical psychologist and professor at Oxford College of Emory University in Georgia. This trait determines how much we enjoy activities like watching horror movies, climbing the steepest sides of mountains, driving race cars around harrowing, hairpin turns or jumping out of airplanes.
The idea of a sensation-seeking trait was originally developed in the 1970s by Martin Zuckerman, an American psychologist. The trait is defined by four components, according to the National Library of Medicine:
Boredom susceptibility: The need for external stimuli.
Disinhibition: The willingness to be spontaneous.
Experience-seeking: The desire to be exposed to new things.
Thrill- and adventure-seeking: The drive to participate in exciting and risky physical activities.
To identify the trait, psychologists administered tests that traditionally had a forced answer choice (e.g., would you prefer X or Y?) but those tests are now typically answered using (▪ ▪ ▪)

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