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(JTA) – It sounds like a teenager's dream: can watching superhero movies have health benefits?
Two Israeli researchers think so. They discovered that by exposing people to short extracts of "Spider-Man" and "Ant-Man" movies, their spider and ants phobias were reduced.
Menachem Ben-Ezra of Ariel University School of Social Work and Yaakov Hoffman of The Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences of Bar-Ilan University published his findings in the Frontiers Journal of Psychiatry last week.
Study participants who have been shown just seven seconds of a scene from a recent movie of "Spider-Man" have lowered their score by 30%. arachnophobia – taken before and after viewing – 20 percent. They achieved a similar result by showing participants with ant phobia a seven-second clip of "Ant-Man" (played by Jewish actor Paul Rudd).
Phobia scores did not decrease when participants saw a scene from General Marvel. insect-free film, leading the researchers to conclude that exposure to heroes on the screen on the theme of insects had made the case.
A press release indicates that Ben-Ezra and Hoffman are both big film fans of Marvel.
not only help people feel better about themselves, they also offer a way to fight hectic and stressful lives by showing us the true underlying mind of a person confronted with his fears, the statement said.
This story "Watch" Spider-Man "Can Decrease Arachnophobia" was written by Gabe Friedman.
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