Coltan Scrivner

I was interested in fear and how we play with it.

And that combined with interest in people's interest in violence that I had.

I kind of combined those next year or two after that and realized that there were a lot of overlap between them.

There was a lot of commonalities between them.

So I developed this concept of morbid curiosity.

And of course, everyone has heard of this.

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And some of the methods were a little outdated.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.