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37 - Thought Lab 4: The Psychology of Horror
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
English - October 28, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Education philosophy political theory history politics plato political philosophy aristotle history of ideas political thought theory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Grizzly bears are scary. But what about zombie grizzly bears? What’s makes something horrifying rather than just frightening?
Paul has a theory. It turns out that humans have a psychological way of organizing the world that also creates the possibility of getting really creeped-out. It helps explain the horror of the zombie grizzly why the old Dracula was creepier than Twilight and how war propaganda can turn enemies into monsters.
References
David Livingstone-Smith (philosopher where Paul’s getting his ideas about essentialism and dehumanization from)
Credits
Paul Sagar
Clayton Tapp (intro)
David Zikovitz (outro)
Sep (art)