Name: なぜ私たちは病的に好奇心が強いのか？ (Why Are We Morbidly Curious?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:14:47.000Z
Duration: 13 min 51 s
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psychologist Carney Landis drew lines on people's faces

and then photographed them in various scenarios

to study facial expressions. But he didn't use actors

and he didn't tell the participants to pretend to feel emotions instead

he subjected them to actual trauma he had  them do things like

smell ammonia, look at pornographic images and even reach their hand in

buckets of wet slimy frogs. His most intense directive

involved ordering them to take a knife and while being photographed

most initially refused to cut the head off, but eventually

two-thirds agreed to do as they were told

including a 13-year-old boy referred to the psychology department by a doctor

for high blood pressure thought to be caused by emotional instability

many believe his inclusion in Landis' experiment

If replicated today Landis might be arrested

but what is psychologically arresting about these images

is that the unease and disgust and fear they show

we are paradoxically drawn towards some pretty repulsive things

or a natural disaster; I mean not one that hurts anyone of course

but one that's exciting. Celebrity scandal

and gore, the macarbe. Like the Kangling a trumpet

used during Himalayan Buddhist rituals that's made out of a human leg bone

we often feel guilty for being interested

in these types of things after all they are unpleasant

well there is no single reason there are many of them

we like disturbing things because we like

to scream. They give us strength, catharsis

reality, exploration, acceptance and meaning

watching someone eat gross tasting jellybeans

or a ghost pepper or a spoonful of cinnamon or

suffer in more extreme ways, is a kinda strange thing to like to do

we often find uncertainty more unpleasant

than unpleasant certainty. At least if we look

we know. There's a neurological basis for exploring in the face of danger

when we are frightened, which makes sense. Neurotransmitters like norepinephrine and dopamine

are released when we are scared physically and mentally preparing us to

take on a threat or successfully escape from it

reward system. Dopamine is released in response to pleasurable

things like sex and food but that doesn't mean

our brains find disturbing things pleasurable

it's more interesting than that, when dopamine systems

are inhibited in laboratory animals they will cease

and literally starve to death; because they no longer find food

in their mouths they will consume it and express

signs that satisfaction. Evidence like this suggests that the brain contains

systems that motivate seeking, approaching and curiosity

for their own sake. This has implications in the study of

compulsive behavior just because you wanted to do something

doesn't mean you like it. The rush of chemicals into our brains and bodies when we are

help us. When the threats are real. But if the threats

aren't real of if we are safely distant from them

and merely spectating. The same chemicals still

appear making us more attentive, more curious

and making it more difficult to look away. In the early nineteen hundred's

Eugène-Louis Doyen published incredible images of corpses he cut

fascinating and a wonderful reminder of what we are

literally made of. We often feel like we need an excuse

like Halloween or anatomy homework in order to look at things like that

without coming across as a total weirdo. I mean

come on if you look too interested in the macarbe it might look like you are

funny enough that guilt may very well fuel

our desire to look in first place sometimes

pressure to not do something can actually make people more likely

it's called the boomerang effect. There are many different ways for things to

when trying to suppress something unintentionally

makes it more widely distributed. In 2003

Barbra Streisand sued to suppress a photo

published online, as part of a California coastline preservation project

one of the photos, the one she was trying to get rid of, showed

her house. Within a month of the lawsuit going public

nearly half a million people had flooded the website and downloaded the

had downloaded the image two of which were her lawyers

in a similar fashion social pressures and tabboo's against viewing

rarer and so a more valuable commodity and also

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