More from KUOW How We Live The Biological Reason We Like To Be Scared KUOW | By Marcie Sillman, Amina Al-Sadi Published October 31, 2014 at 1:54 PM AKDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 7:58 Flickr Photo/Hammonton Photography (CC-BY-NC-ND) Marcie Sillman talks to sociologist Margee Kerr about the reasons people like to feel fear.