>>7111994because it's easier to suppress the lizard part of your brain that gets scared by spooky noises than the part that handles social interactions.
If her heart rate didn't go up while murdering people then I'd be a little worried. Even if they're fictional.
And before any smart ass comes at me with
>but you constantly kill people in games.
Yes, but most don't games don't give you the social context that would normally go along side with it.
If you mow down people in a shooter you register them more as moving targets than actual people. Murder is usually sanitized and cartoonified in games.
And I would expect people playing the other games that portray murder more realistically to have their heart rate spike as well. 
