Coltan Scrivner

I didn't come up with the term, right?

Everybody kind of knows what it is, which made it all the more shocking that nobody had really done any research on this psychologically.

There were a few studies in the 80s

but nobody had ever followed up on them.

And some of the methods were a little outdated.

That go to sleep and watch serial killer movies are psychopaths.

Are psychopaths.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and I did that because that's what the data was telling me was there.

So the way you develop scales like that, you give people lots of questions, kind of like I did with those three horror types.

Things that you think tap into this central concept or central theme.

And then you see how they're answered similarly between people and those break out into groups.

And so what I found is that, yeah, there seem to be four types of morbid curiosity.

So one of those is the minds of dangerous people.

which is an interest in understanding people who might be dangerous, but maybe don't signal that they're dangerous, right?

So true crime would be a great example of latching onto that type of morbid curiosity.

There's violence, which is an interest in an act of violence.

So this is kind of going back to that study I did where there was a violent action and people were homing in on the actual contact point.

That's a prime example.

And then you have bodily injuries, which is kind of the outcome of violence or the outcome of a dangerous situation, right?