Does normal pulse rate correlate with watching horror movies?

Does Watching Smoking in Movies Promote Teenage Smoking?

Compared to adolescents with low exposure to smoking in movies, those with high exposure are about three times as likely to try smoking or become smokers. We have observed this effect in nationally representative samples using cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. This effect remains statistically significant after controlling for numerous other traditional risk factors, such as personality...

Analysis of camera work in horror movies

Camera work parameters such as shot size, camera movement, and camera angle are crucial parts for creating digital contents such as movies and games. After creating a story that is to be conveyed to the audience, it is important to be able to present the intended feeling in the contents. By using the same content but by modifying the parameters, such as from a long distance shot to a close up, ...

Enhanced Ovarian Folliclular Development by Metformin Does Not Correlate with Pregnancy Rate: A Randomized Trial

Making Movies: Watching Software Evolve through Visualisation

This paper introduces an innovative visualisation technique for exposing the software defects that develop as a software project evolves. The application of this technique to a large-scale industrial software project is described together with the way in which the technique was modified to enable integration with the software configuration management process. The paper shows how a number of for...

Horror Movies and the Cognitive Ecology of Primary Metaphors

Horror movies consistently reflect metaphorical associations between verticality and affect, as well as between brightness and affect. For example, bad events happen when movie characters are going downwards, or when lights go off. Monsters and villains emerge from below and from the darkness. And protagonists get lost and stuck in dark underground caves, dungeons, tunnels, mines, bunkers or se...