How can an agent grade a horror/thriller script or cut for fear-building and say which claims behind each check are measured versus craft lore?
A usable audit has six checks, each tagged with an evidence grade from the inspected sources: anticipation phase present before a scare (measured fMRI and self-report, partly second-hand); obscurity without confusion (craft lore, plus indirect uncertainty experiment); sound cue use and whether it is a learned genre cue (qualitative); repeated-cue risk (measured for re-viewing, not for within-film repetition); darkness (lore); jump-scare physiology (not yet measured). This is a synthesis; no inspected source validates the audit itself.
A usable audit has six checks, each tagged with an evidence grade from the inspected sources: anticipation phase present before a scare (measured fMRI and self-report, partly second-hand); obscurity without confusion (craft lore, plus indirect uncertainty experiment); sound cue use and whether it is a learned genre cue (qualitative); repeated-cue risk (measured for re-viewing, not for within-film repetition); darkness (lore); jump-scare physiology (not yet measured). This is a synthesis; no inspected source validates the audit itself.
Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; grading checklist with claim support labelled.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
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| documentation | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources. |
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- cites → https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10996