Curiosity is infectious –
New study on mid-pandemic media preferences shows some of us lean into the morbid
As the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world, and more people became aware of the serious threat it posed, the (film
Scrivner’s hypothesis is that such “morbidly curious” behavior is an evolved response mechanism for dealing with threats by learning from imagined experiences. “We might reason that these search terms spiked in popularity because people were trying to learn more about the coronavirus outbreak in response to its recent impact on their daily life around that time,” he wrote in his paper. “The shutting of international borders may have signaled to the American consciousness that the coronavirus was, in fact, a real threat.” And part of the human impulse to prepare for said threat would be to learn more about it — including seeking out fictional representations of said threat.
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