2024-01-22 06:00:00
PSYCHOLOGY – Disappearance of children, serial crimes, cannibalism… The more striking the facts are, the more anxiety they generate, and the more they arouse our interest!
Throughout newspaper columns, pushes on our phones, and television reports, we are told of the atrocities they committed. And it works! The modestly named “news stories” have fascinated us for a long time. Particularly when they relate exceptional facts, whether due to an unusual context, the atypical profile of the criminal (a woman, a serial killer, a couple, etc.), a particularly barbaric modus operandi, the number of victims, the notoriety of the victim or their tormentor… But why do we inflict these terrifying stories on ourselves? Would we unconsciously derive a certain “benefit” from it?
Although they have always been fascinating, the news stories that attract attention vary depending on the era, and the interest they arouse therefore says something about our society. “For example, the fact that the victims were children did not always arouse the same indignation as todaynotes Lucie Jouvet Legrand, doctor in socioanthropology…
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