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Title: Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared?

Open Graph Title: Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared?

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Description: A scream is built to cut through every other sound around it, but plenty of people scream when they aren’t scared at all.

Open Graph Description: When something frightens you, your body is moving before you had time to think. The amygdala flags the danger and signals the hypothalamus, which switches on t

X Description: When something frightens you, your body is moving before you had time to think. The amygdala flags the danger and signals the hypothalamus, which switches on t

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NYU’s David Poeppel https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150716123834.htm
20 per secondhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4562283/
roughly 30 to 150 times per secondhttps://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:75898
Emory psychologist Harold Gouzoules said in 2019https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/12/what-scream-emory-psychologists-explore-acoustics-primal-human-call
12 volunteershttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8043411/
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