In Why Scary Movies Make Us Jumpy, host Harith Iskander explores why certain sounds in scary movies can make us feel uneasy. The concept of sympathetic resonance explains that objects vibrate in response to specific frequencies, meaning that when two objects with similar resonant frequencies are close, one can absorb the vibration of the other and begin to vibrate back. This effect creates sounds that can feel haunting or unsettling to the human ear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Why Scary Movies Make Us Jumpy, host Harith Iskander explores why certain sounds in scary movies can make us feel uneasy. The concept of sympathetic resonance explains that objects vibrate in response to specific frequencies, meaning that when two objects with similar resonant frequencies are close, one can absorb the vibration of the other and begin to vibrate back. This effect creates sounds that can feel haunting or unsettling to the human ear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.