Photo by Matt Brown on Flickr. The recent success of Netflix’s Dahmer has brought up an old question: why are we so fascinated with serial killers and true crime? I get this question often, so I thought it would be worth writing about some of my recent thoughts on it. One of the dimensions of morbid curiosity that I’ve discovered, the “minds of dangerous people” dimension, maps directly onto our love of true crime. Like other types of morbid curiosity, our interest in serial killers and true crime has its roots in gathering information about threats and potential dangers.
The Origins of Our Fascination with True…
Photo by Matt Brown on Flickr. The recent success of Netflix’s Dahmer has brought up an old question: why are we so fascinated with serial killers and true crime? I get this question often, so I thought it would be worth writing about some of my recent thoughts on it. One of the dimensions of morbid curiosity that I’ve discovered, the “minds of dangerous people” dimension, maps directly onto our love of true crime. Like other types of morbid curiosity, our interest in serial killers and true crime has its roots in gathering information about threats and potential dangers.