American psychologist whose research on morbid curiosity — the desire to learn about dangerous, threatening, and disturbing things — examines the adaptive functions of attraction to horror, violence, and death.
Provides the evolutionary and psychological account of morbid curiosity — arguing that attraction to horror, disturbing content, and threat information is adaptive preparation for dangerous scenarios rather than pathological — making horror consumption and dark curiosity psychologically explicable and potentially valuable.
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