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You've likely heard the term armchair detective bandied about, but Kaplan and his cohorts have noticed a new phenomenon: the rise of the armchair psychologist."The detective in all of us kind of wants to solve the crime," he explains."The psychologist in us, I think increasingly wants to understand the human mindset, the motivations kind of behind why people would potentially commit a heinous crime.
When we're not digging into the mind of a murderer, we're wondering about the exact circumstances that led to a person that looks like any one of us becoming headline news. Says Kaplan,"I think that plays into this notion of just wanting to have a deep understanding of people and the world around you.
In a recent survey, he shares, three-quarters of respondents said they found it interesting to "see what messes people make of their lives," or in some cases the messes that they unwittingly find themselves in."And about half of people said that seeing other people's problems in these situations made them feel better about their own lives."
He believes that"the appeal is based on seeing people living in these really extreme kind of situations, almost so you don't have to, you know?" So no matter your work drama or just how batty your kids are making you feel, you can watch the retelling of a brutal strangulation"and it gives you this sort of sense that, thank god that's not me," he says.
Not all of them were victims or even a direct participant in the case, rather they just knew someone who had been involved or were an observer to the situation. But even that brush with lawlessness is enough to help people empathize. "What we found is if you have had a personal experience in some way with crime," he shares,"it has actually driven your interest in the genre.
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