Welcome back to Psych-Minded. I'm your host Kalley Marie and today we are going
to be talking about what your Halloween costume choice says about you. Thank you
so much for joining me today. If you've been following me in the month of
October you know that we have been doing spooky psychology videos all month long.
To wrap up the series I wanted to do a fun, light video on what your Halloween
costume says about you. So to be totally honest I did not find a lot of
legitimate studies on what your Halloween costume choice says about your
personality. But I did find a really wonderful write-up by a woman by the
name of Kate Yarrow. She wrote this for Psychology Today and had some really
really great perspectives on why people choose the Halloween costumes that they
do. We're gonna be talking about some of Kate's thoughts today on that so
stick around -- it'll be lots of fun! The number one thing is that this video is
geared at adults -- how crazy is that, right? We think about Halloween as being
for children but that is so not the case anymore. In the last couple decades the
money that we spent on Halloween and the participation in Halloween has mostly
been seen by adults. Every year it seems that costumes are getting more and more
elaborate and more intense, but there are certain trends that do stand the test of
time when it comes to Halloween. We tend to choose the same costumes year after
year. This was one trend that was noticed that was pretty interesting -- that we
aspire to have the same sort of realm of costume every year. The number one
costume choice for adults year after year is a witch. Second in line to that
is a Batman character or a superhero. So we pick the same costumes year after
year. The similar aspirations of being an awful witch or being a powerful
superhero seemed to stand the test. The Number one reason people pick the
costume choices that they do is because sex sells. If you haven't noticed
everything is always the sexy "blank". So it's the sexy nurse or the sexy baseball
player or the sexy fire woman. There's really no costumes that don't have a
sexy spin on them, at least somewhere. This was one thing that Kate Yarrow
noticed and had to point out, of course, because psychologically, sex has
such a huge influence on our psyche and this is kind of the one night when we
can unleash and be whoever we want to be. One thing I wanted to point out also
is, notice that a lot of these sexy costumes typically are subservient roles
for women. So if there's a nurse or a maid it's always the sexy nurse or maid.
It's thought that maybe women are trying to reclaim back some of these
subservient roles and regain some more power by adding sex into the role.
For males we notice that the trend of sex is some sort of costume that is
super or powerful. Even something as silly as a lumberjack could be a step up
for someone's sexuality. Men are not immune to flaunting off their sexuality
during this holiday. Moving on, of course we know that
costumes are a way to express ourselves. They're also a way to explore, but
the caveat is that it's a chance to explore who we really are not. 90% of the
costumes -- 99% of the costumes we see are things we could never be. An astronaut or
even a cowboy, right? So a lot of times it is strictly for dress-up. A
costume choice does not necessarily mean that someone has an alter ego or a
hidden personality trait that has been dying to come out. They typically reflect
who we are NOT. Maybe that's not what you wanted to hear but that is what the
psychologist said. It's also believed that developmentally, based on statistics,
the costumes that we choose have a lot to do with our role in life. At least
whatever place we are in our life. So for example, those between 18 and 24 are most
likely to dress up on Halloween, with the next 10 to 20 decades being less and
less over time. It almost cuts in half by the time people reach 50, that they're
willing to dress up. So it's thought that maybe development plays a role because
when we're younger we're so eager to try new things and try on different hats per
se and find where we fit in in life. So Halloween we may already be doing
that in our regular life, so we're more eager when the holiday comes around
to sort of project that onto the holiday itself. Again exploring roles that we may
or may not ever fit or believe that we fit into, similar to the sexual
characters. This is also a time when people are able to explore
dark characters. One particular statistic found that in times of
uncertainty, especially economic or political, uncertainty people are more
inclined to dress up as evil or dark characters. Psychologists speculate that
this is because people relate or wish they could relate with the apathy that
batman or superman characters might feel in a way because they are sort of risen
above what is going on on earth. We sort of envy the superhero during times of
distress in the economy and politics because it not only represents a savior
figure but it represents being not a part of any of that. Essentially
being able to defeat it, so that can be really appealing when we have certain
presidents that are elected or there's turmoil going on economically. People
might gravitate towards being more of a darker character and not having to deal
with all of that for one night. Similar to sex and the dark character
role, we have the rock star role, right? Who doesn't want to pretend they're a
rock star? Who doesn't want to dress up as their favorite musician or movie star
and pretend that they are a rock star for the evening? So that is certainly a
motivator when it comes to picking our Halloween costumes -- is pretending we are
far more than we are. Lastly costumes make amazing
conversation starters. How many times have you gone up to somebody without
even thinking about it and talk to them about their costume just because it was
so awesome? This can be a great way to draw a little bit of attention to
ourselves or be a little funny and creative and maybe make some new friends.
What do you think about Halloween costumes? Do they represent our inner
desires? Our yearnings? Who we really are on the inside?
You let me know! Leave a comment below! I want to know what you thought about this
video and tell me what your being for Halloween. I want to know and we can do
an analysis about it. I'm just kidding but if you did enjoy this video please
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see you guys next time! Bye!
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