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Well, that's certainly one way to put it. Expanding, he means that a thrill ride (like a roller coasters or a zip line or even a first-person shooter video game) is an experience where actual threats to our physiology have been minimized, even though we still feel threatened.
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Evans, D.C. (2017). Fun. In: Bottlenecks. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2580-6_14
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