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Why We Love Being Scared: A Conversation with Psychologist and Author Coltan Scrivner
We humans have always been fascinated by the things that frighten us. In this episode of Weird Historian, Marc Hartzman speaks with psychologist Coltan Scrivner, author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away (Penguin Books), about why we are drawn to horror films, haunted houses, and true crime, what our fascination with the macabre reveals about human nature, and much more.
Learn more and order the book at ColtanScrivner.com
Sign up for Coltan Scrivner’s Morbidly Curious Thoughts Substack .
Visit WeirdHistorian.com for more of the weird and wonderful.
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By Marc Hartzman
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We humans have always been fascinated by the things that frighten us. In this episode of Weird Historian, Marc Hartzman speaks with psychologist Coltan Scrivner, author of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away (Penguin Books), about why we are drawn to horror films, haunted houses, and true crime, what our fascination with the macabre reveals about human nature, and much more.
Learn more and order the book at ColtanScrivner.com
Sign up for Coltan Scrivner’s Morbidly Curious Thoughts Substack .
Visit WeirdHistorian.com for more of the weird and wonderful.