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And that can kind of relax you.

Yeah, because if you don't know, that's important information.

Watch it and get it for yourself, right?

You've already seen it.

Yeah, exactly.

It's just like watching a movie you've seen a hundred times, a very similar effect where you kind of just know what's going to happen, right?

So I think that combined with often having like a sort of

It explains why Sonya reached out to me about being on the podcast for the last time.

No, you know, there's natural variation in Morbid Curiosity, just like there's natural variation in...

extroversion or introversion or neuroticism or agreeableness or openness to new experiences.

There's natural variation in any personality trait, and this is no exception.

And in the test that I've done, there doesn't seem to, again, be any kind of relationship between high morbid curiosity and bad outcomes like being violent or being more likely to be a criminal or anything like that.

You know, it might make you a little more interested in true crime and ghost stories, but that's probably the extent of it.

Did you have one area that was higher than others?

Well, so Minds of Dangerous People is an interest in understanding people who might hurt you or hurt someone else.

So true crime really leans into that.

Right.

So I had to guess Sonia would be a true crime fan and would enjoy watching or reading, listening to true crime stories.

It can be involved in other things, but that's kind of the primary, I would say.

If you had to pick one piece of pop culture that would tag onto that, it would be True Crime.