Jun

5

The psychology of scary movies might explain some market behaviours. People appear to enjoy this genre of film because they provide excitement without genuine danger. This differentiates them from, say, almost being run over, which isn't enjoyable at all.

Apparently movies are much more scary when the audience can identify with one of the characters. Thus Alien was so scary because Sigourney Weaver's character (Ripley) looked after the cat. On the other hand, Alien Resurrection wasn't scary at all as people couldn't identify with Ripley's character once she had been reborn with alien genetic material herself.

So in markets, the identification is created by having some stocks, and the scary part is provided by reading bearish columnists. So one should probably not be too hard on some of the bears, their job is not prediction, but rather entertainment.


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