>>8883115>>8883115>Bullshit. If fear were absolutely different and based on a particular set of psychological biases unique to each individual how do you explain the effects of scary movies, or even similar themes from scary things across cultures? We have more hardwired into us than you give us credit for.What you say is "hardwired" is what psychologists might call "archaic remnants," but what would more accurately be described by Jung as archetypes. The reason there are recurring themes which are "scary" to people in society is because there is a mass unconscious from which the majority would draw their personal unconscious, in this particular case, the emotional reaction of fear.
And it's not this way in all societies. Our particular society has blocked certain aspects of ourselves and made certain things "unacceptable." These things are then brought forth into the conscious through different forms of art, like movies, for us to confront full on consciously. The reason it scares us is because we are "hard-wired," as you say, to not accept it. These things that scare us are largely symbolic archetypes, recurring motifs in mythos throughout history.
If you show certain scary movies to other societies which have not made certain things unacceptable, they will be unphased by what our population would consider terrifying, because it does not strike an unconscious nerve of nonacceptance. You know how sometimes you view other societies and view their art, rituals, religions, stories, music, etc, as "creepy?" It is because those things are regularly explored and accepted by those societies and they realize it is simply a part of themselves to be accepted.
