The Horror Paradox | Media Psychology & Mental Health
Channel: Screen Therapy
Date: 2019-01-12

Why Do We Like Horror Games? Why do we like getting scared? Using Media Psychology, let's explore a few reasons why we like them as well as a few opportunities we have to use them for our well-being. 

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Game Therapy: Why We (Don't) Play Horror Games Pt.1:
https://screentherapyblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/game-therapy-why-we-dont-play-horror-games-part-1/ 

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Games In Order of Appearance:

P.T. (2014)
SOMA (2015)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017)
Alien: Isolation (2014)
Five Night's at Freddy's (2014)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010)
Nevermind (2015)
Friday the 13th: The Game (2017)
Dead By Daylight (2016)

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Sources in Order:

Reinecke, L. (2017). Mood management. In P. Rössler (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects (pp. 1271-1284). Wiley-Blackwell. 

Clasen, Mathias & Kjeldgaard-Christian, Jens & Johnson, John. 
(2018). Horror, Personality, and Threat Simulation: A Survey on the Psychology  of Scary Media. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 10.1037/ebs0000152.

Louise Grant & Gail Kinman (2014) Emotional Resilience in the Helping Professions and how it can be Enhanced, Health and Social Care Education, 3:1, 23-34, DOI: 10.11120/hsce.2014.00040

Rigby, C. Scott, and Richard M. Ryan. "Motivation for entertainment media and its eudaimonic aspects through the lens of self-determination theory." The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being (2016): 34.

Nabi, Robin L., and Abby Prestin. "Reflecting on Emotion’s Role in the Relationship between Media Use and Subjective Well-Being." The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being:(2016): 51.

Krahé, B., Möller, I., Huesmann, L. R., Kirwil, L., Felber, J., & Berger, A. (2011). Desensitization to media violence: Links with habitual media violence exposure, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(4), 630-646.

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Music in Order:

animetrash - k. Part 2 Untitled 6
animetrash - k. Part 2 Untitled 5.5
Jasper De Ceuster - Dusk
Chris Zabriskie - Chance Luck Errors in Nature Fate Destruction As a Finale

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Other Credits:
"HE DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE... Resident Evil - Part 2" - playthrough uploaded by Markiplier
"PRO LEVEL GAMEPLAY! |  Friday the 13th: The Game" - uploaded by xpertThief

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