In my search for any definitive answer I chose to look through the APA (American Psychology Association) official website for more trustworthy results. This pushed me towards a podcast titled Speaking of Psychology : Why Do We Love Scary Movies? By Kim I. Mills featuring Coltan Scrivner. Scrivner is a Behavioral Scientest, and is a part of the Recreational Fear Lab at the Aarhus University. As I searched for more on any possible change to behavior I learned some pretty interesting things from this episode's transcript. First, was the fact that the original 80's slasher genre was the Big Boom for Horror in our current day. Then we get to hear Scrivner thoughts on certain genres and pieces, as well as why he chose to research the effects of Horror. Finally the big question of is there any change in behavior, to which he replied that there has been many studies from the 80's to today. Also that the results are have only shown that there is a stimuli for curiosity in the morbid, not that the enjoyer lacks empathy.

Moving on, another piece to help search for evidence that there is no danger regarding a Horror fans behavior and mental state, I used the Right as Rain from UW Medicine.org. More specifically, an article titled Is Watching Horror Movies Bad for Your Mental Health? By McKenna Princing. She dives into the argument with a list of things that would put someone at more risk of having issues sleeping. This article is more helping the reader keep teack of there mental health with the horror genre. I think that though it does not really determine a mental change it helps to prevent strain caused by morbid images. Which can be applied to too much of anything, similar to how too many screens can cause eye strain or not enough water will cause dehydration. This resource is helpful if there are any people who are having a difficult time enjoying the horror genre due to fear of nightmares or insomnia.

The article, How Horror Movies can Help People Overcome Real-World Trauma from Nicole Johnson begins with a personal story. One that helps us to understand the authors personal story on the trauma that they were able to overcome. How being able to watch a slasher from the 80's helped them to push past a life changing expericence, and any other obstacle. Then, we break down how this can and has been applied to other phobias using exposure therapy. Also using a study from a behavioralist that we interacted with earlier Coltan Scrivner. This study was based on the people who are more morbid curious were feeling and what they watched during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Which helped to show that there are advantages to being a fan ofthe things that people would normally fear.