Which selection from the article BEST introduces Kerr to the reader? O Personal challenges, like running a race or climbing a tree, stress us but come out OK, Kerr says. "Even though we knew we were
safe going in, we feel we accomplished something."
O Kerr has applied some of her research to the real world by helping to design haunted houses, and she says she hates seeing
people dragged in against their will by well-meaning friends or family.
Kerr thinks that we also enjoy fear as a distraction. Calling up our fight-or-flight response tamps down our voluntary thinking.
O "When we're in a safe place, we can interpret that threat response as we do any high arousal response like joy or happiness," says
Margee Kerr, a sociologist and author who specializes in fear.
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