News tagged with scary film
Halloween Special: Why we love to scare ourselves; the anatomy of fright
Dracula, Frankenstein, witches, ghosts and goblins are all around us at this time of year -- and Hollywood keeps them at our beck and call for the rest of the year as well. Scary movies allow us to experience ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Fear or romance could make you change your mind, study finds
Each day people are confronted with innumerable pieces of information and hundreds of decisions. Not surprisingly, people seldom process each piece of information deeply, instead relying on quick mental shortcuts to guide ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Eat, drink and be scary!
The heart pounds wildly. Breathing hastens. Who is that figure rising from behind the fog? How does that deep droning voice on the other end of the line know what I’m wearing? What lies in the dark abyss around the corner? ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Scientists film hagfish anti-shark slime weapon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hagfish found in New Zealand’s deepest waters is grotesque enough, thanks to its scary protruding teeth straight from a horror film. Now, scientists have witnessed the full ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Fans set sights on first 'Call of Duty' convention
(AP) -- The inaugural "Call of Duty XP" convention more closely resembled Disneyland than an actual battleground as the two-day event celebrating the shoot-'em-up video game franchise took flight Friday at ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Do you fear…Now that Friday the 13th is here?
(Medical Xpress) -- Have you watched the movie Friday the 13th? Scary, isn’t it? Well, perhaps not quite as scary as the infamous Rebecca Black song, “Friday” – but close enough. If you are one of those ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2011 |
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Robots to the rescue (w/ Video)
Researchers are exploring ways to make rescue robots less "creepy" and more user-friendly, incorporating lessons learned from studies of how humans interact with technology
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Australian birds attract mates with 'scary movie effect'
Using a horror film to bring your date closer is a classic move in the teenage playbook. Now, a study of Australian birds finds that other animals use the same "scary movie effect" to attract female attention, ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Entertainment industry flinches as Google TV charges in
Google revolutionized the way people access information. Now it wants to transform how people get entertainment.
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)
Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Crew includes Twittering skipper, singer, ER doc
(AP) -- The astronauts headed to the international space station include a Twittering skipper, a classically trained musician who named her son after one of Columbia's fallen astronauts, and a former Navy ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2009 |
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