THE HOUSMAN EFFECT: Researchers find fans of apocalyptic movies may be coping with pandemic better. A.E. Housman argued that thinking about bad things was prophylactic, like Mithridates of Pontus’ habit of dosing himself with small doses of arsenic to protect against being poisoned: “Mithridates, he died old.”
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