What makes the cave story so irresistible?

Every day children worldwide are involved in accidents, disasters and war violence.

According to the Groningen mass psychologist Hans van de Sande, this is due to the unique circumstances of this story and its protagonists. First, there is the cave. A place that, according to Van de Sande, people associate with being nearly dead, with a grave. 'When you get stuck in a cave, it is something like being buried alive. One of the biggest fears people have ', says the scientist.

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