I´ve only briefly taken a look at the Bibliography of Fantastic Films, but the horror section produces some results with the focus on audience response, emotion and neurological experiments:
http://www.bibfan.de/frindres.php?such=Horror+&sziel=seind
one example being #954 Hamann, Gerhard F. / Mangold, Roland / Stoll, Martin / Winterhoff-Spurk, Peter: Veränderung des zerebralen Blutflusses bei der Rezeption emotionalisierender Filmausschnitte. In: Medienpsychologie 10. 1998. No. 1. [?D] p. 51-72. [includes bibliography]
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Additionally:
RON TAMBORINI et alii: Reacting to Graphic Horror. A Model of Empathy and Emotional Behavior. In: Communication Research, Vol. 17, No. 5, 616-640 (1990)
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A German PhD Thesis about German horror films is work in progress
http://www.essays-on-horrorfilm.com/horrorD/?page_id=4
with the corpus so far including every production that shares at least one aspect of the horror genre, not about emotion but horror as a pop culture phenomenon.
But in my opinion there might be a link, because the emotional response to horror films is subject to a much greater change after repeated viewings than a film like Titanic.
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