Josie Ford
Curiously Meta
Coltan Scrivner’s curiosity about morbid curiosity is ushering him to higher and higher realms. He wrote his PhD thesis on the subject and joined the at Aarhus University, Denmark. Scrivner defines morbid curiosity as “a motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena”. You will find that definition in his 2021 study called .
The Morbid Curiosity Scale weighs up how much a person agrees or disagrees with 24 more or less morbid statements. Some of the statements are broad (“I…
