This week we are rounding off the Execution series with the psychology of why humans find executions so morbidly fascinating. I am just going to give a preface to the episode by saying that this is of course a generalisation backed by research, but there will always be the anomalies out there that will deviate from the norm.
Sources - Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson
Ted talk by Frances Larson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfV2xVsUKc
The psychology behind morbid reality: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the fascination with blood, gore, injury, and death on the internet. Rebecca Fox Psychology 2013
Personality and curiosity about morbid and sexual events. M.Zuckerman & P. Litle Psychology 1986
What decapitation's tells us about human nature – mpr news
When Death Is a Fascination The Atlantic By Leah Sottile
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