Coltan Scrivner

So you have morbid curiosity.

It's like this overall trait that you have.

That's your total interest in things that are dangerous, right?

And then there's different ways you can express that out in the world.

So one of those is minds of dangerous people, which we talked about.

So that would tap into this interest in understanding who's dangerous.

How can you spot them?

People come to your door.

How do I know if they're really trick or treaters or if they're actually people who are trying to purge me?

True crime would obviously be the...

perfect fit into this category.

And this one's interesting because I think there's a good specific evolutionary reason why we're interested in this as humans.

Yeah, so there's a really popular book that came out, I think two years ago, written by Richard Wrangham.

So he's a biological anthropologist.

He spent his whole life studying apes and trying to understand human evolution through apes and our closest ancestors.

And it's called The Goodness Paradox.

And in it, he puts forward this new theory of

why humans are uniquely what he calls proactively aggressive.

So there's two kinds of aggression in the world, right?

So you have reactive aggression, which you can probably imagine what that means.