Are you a masochist for loving movies that make you cry?Submission Season 1 Episode 1 (2016) Not so, according to Focus Features and SilverLogic Labs, who investigated how movies elicit emotional responses from viewers around the world.

Focus submitted its new film A Monster Callsto help with the research. Watching a movie in theaters with an audience, it turns out, leads to an increased emotional response.

SilverLogic Labs analyzes emotions and audience responses related directly to scientific understandings.

“Watching A Monster Callswith other people, you collectively have this catharsis, this insight into the human condition” says Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner, who described humans as a “hypersocial species.”

Hearing other people laugh, cry and respond to a film strengthens your connection. The more people you share a movie with, the higher the emotional impact.