Leah Mousseri - Week 8 - I Love True Crime

     The other day, my mom asked me what I was listening to and I told her about the true-crime podcast I like to listen to every once in a while. This got us talking about all the different true crime shows and podcasts we like to listen to or watch and it made me think why people even enjoy listening to these shows. Some of them are just sick and to think they're all real crimes that people have been victim to is even more unsettling, yet me and many others sit in and listen to these shows eager to hear about the next. So, what's there to like?

    I've always found true crime interesting and it piqued my interest to know how morbid some people can be and the farthest extent someone can go when committing a crime. Behavioral scientist, Coltan Scrivner, says that the reason that true crime is so popular is due to "our mind's thirst for knowledge about proactively aggressive people." Proactive aggression is a more calculative type of aggression compared to reactive aggression which is more impulsive. Reactive aggression has declined in humans while proactive aggression has increased which has caused people to be more curious about murders and serial killers. From shows such as Dahmer, we can feed our brains with knowledge of these criminals' behaviors and mindsets without putting ourselves in danger. Scrivner states that these true crime stories started in medieval ballads and later became written stories such as A true and most horrifying account of how a woman tyrannically murdered her four children and also killed herself, at Weidenhausen near Eschwege in Hesse. 

    Learning about these horrific murders can also provide people with a sense of control and a feeling of safety despite having the knowledge that humans are capable of such crimes. While reading, watching, or listening to these stories, we can imagine ourselves in these scenarios and think "What would I do if I were the victim?" Everyone is surrounded by strangers, whether it be your neighbor or the cashier at the grocery store, and some traits that we notice about them can make us wonder if they're a killer, so we naturally want to be prepared. From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that we are attracted to true crime media since knowing about these situations can help us if we're ever in one ourselves.


Do you like true crime? 


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  1. AnonymousNovember 14, 2023 at 8:30 AM

    I, personally, love watching true crime. The intrigue of both the process of solving mysteries and catching the horrible people who did them, as well as seeing how the human mind can go wrong to make someone do horrible things. Those explain why I like them, but I also think another reason could just be morbid curiosity of what these crimes were, what happened, and who would be willing to do them, and what led them to doing it. All of those combined cause me to greatly enjoy true crime.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 14, 2023 at 1:03 PM

    I love not watching or reading, but listening to true crime. On my drive to school which ranges from 20-30 minutes nothing beats throwing on a good true crime story to wake you up. I also find them very interesting, helping to keep me awake and attentive when I drive, so no I don't like true crime I love it.

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  3. EvaNovember 15, 2023 at 5:46 PM

    I personally don't like true crime as it is too bland for me to enjoy (I prefer the fantasy genre rather than real life criminals), but it is interesting to me that there is a whole reason as to why people enjoy it so much.

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