Hello, I am Robert G. Male. Welcome to WraithStop™. Here you will find links that I think are of interest. Furthermore these are links that I want to keep track of because they have given me either ideas or some other form of inspiration for my writing. Links are listed in order lowest to highest both in the date they are given and the order in which they appear (meaning: read them from the bottom up for a certain day's list). Some of these sites may require you to sign up for free. Without further ado, the links...

April 13, 2010

• The age old horror fan's question, why do we like the scary. The science bit is interesting about the parts of the brain involved and the collision of the fear and pleasure response in those areas. I'm more interested in the unanswered question of why some people feel the fake danger response much more actuely and for longer. They have to go and sour things by disparaging the people who enjoy a scare--from the psychologists actually, not the scientists looking at how it all quantifiably works.