Dr. Coltan Scrivner

cast a spell from afar or the stories we tell where, where women are the perpetrator tend to involve that.

And it's funny because one of the, one of the studies that I conducted a long time ago now, probably six, seven years ago is one of the, one of the first studies I did related to this people, certain, certain people can hurt you even if they aren't physically strong, if they have the right means, right.

Poisoning in particular.

One of the questions I get a lot is, if you're really morbidly curious, does it mean you're more likely to do something bad, to commit a violent crime or engage in the things that you sort of indulge in media?

And at least in the research I've done and others have done, the answer seems to be no, it's not related to committing a violent act.

Playing violent video games doesn't make you a violent individual.

Watching true crime doesn't make you more likely to be a serial killer.

But there certainly are serial killers or we'll say even just people who are featured in true crime documentaries, people who are antagonists in them.

There are plenty of them who are morbidly curious, right?

Jeffrey Dahmer was a great example of this.

Jeffrey Dahmer, I think, even used the phrase morbidly curious, like some of the things he did because he was morbidly curious.

And I think that got a lot of people thinking, well, is this kind of curiosity?

Could it be bad?

Could it lead you to do these things?

And I think the answer to that seems to be no, as long as there aren't several other pathologies present.

Jeffrey Dahmer's morbid curiosity has not caused him to kill and eat, you know, several people, right?

He had that sort of predisposition and psychopathology anyway.

Now, he might have attributed that to curiosity, but certainly people who have the same kind of interests as him but did not have that psychopathology didn't go out and, again, murder and cannibalize numerous people.

So it seems to be a fairly safe and innocuous thing on its own.

But like many other traits, if you combine it with a lot of other bad, bad traits, it can lead to things like violence or extreme situations like the ones that you see in true crime.