The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale
Scrivner, Personality and Individual Differences 183, 2021, 111139. Introduces a 24-item Morbid Curiosity Scale, defined as a motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena. Four studies, 1,370 people in the first two. Higher scorers were socially curious and preferred films with a central threat; scores were stable over four to six weeks; the scale strongly predicted choosing to investigate morbid information; described as a normally occurring trait.
Scrivner, Personality and Individual Differences 183, 2021, 111139. Introduces a 24-item Morbid Curiosity Scale, defined as a motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena. Four studies, 1,370 people in the first two. Higher scorers were socially curious and preferred films with a central threat; scores were stable over four to six weeks; the scale strongly predicted choosing to investigate morbid information; described as a normally occurring trait.
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Scrivner, C. (2021). The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 183, 111139. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111139 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111139