Albert Blénessy’s research while affiliated with University of Pecs and other places

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The role of excitement and enjoyment through subjective evaluation of horror film scenes
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February 2024

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Martina Dominika Veszprémi

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The popularity of the horror genre is constantly increasing and still has not reached its peak. As a recreational activity, people watch horror movies in pursuit of excitement and enjoyment. However, we still do not know what traits make people seek out this type of increase in arousal (excitement) and why they find it desirable (enjoyment). Consequently, in this study, we sought to identify observer-related factors that allows consumption of horror content as a recreational activity. Participants (N = 558) answered questions about movie-watching habits, completed measures of cognitive emotion regulation, sensation seeking, paranormal beliefs, morbid curiosity, disgust sensitivity, and rated short scenes from horror movies on dimensions of excitement, enjoyment, disgust, fearfulness, and realness. Our findings suggest that the predictors of excitement and enjoyment are slightly different. Perceived disgust negatively affected enjoyment but did not influence to excitement. Further, both excitement and enjoyment were positively predicted by fearfulness and realness ratings of the scenes, and morbid curiosity. Paranormal beliefs, sensation seeking, disgust sensitivity, anxiety, and emotion regulation strategies were not associated with excitement and enjoyment. Future studies should make a distinction between excitement and enjoyment as they are equally important factors with slightly different backgrounds in recreational fear.

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... Sparks (1991), for example, found that males with higher subjective and physical stress responses to a horror movie appreciated the movie the most. A recent study has also shown that higher fearfulness in horror movie scenes leads to greater enjoyment for viewers (Kiss et al., 2024). Other studies hint that the state of being emotionally aroused by art could be rewarding per se (e.g., music; Salimpoor et al., 2009) and thus function as a driving component of preference formation for content that affects one on an emotional level. ...

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How movies move us – movie preferences are linked to differences in neuronal emotion processing of fear and anger: an fMRI study
The role of excitement and enjoyment through subjective evaluation of horror film scenes