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S2E11: Your Mind On Moral Curiosity, with Dr. Jordan Wylie

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Why Do We Always Love the Bad Guy?

People might just enjoy the arousal that they get from something bad which maybe is I feel intuitively that feels the draw of bad boy or bad girl. There's a positive correlation there between people who are thrill seeking and people who are interested in negative content. You have an incentive to explore it to protect yourself from potential threats. People are also more curious about strangely morally good people but people also find those people boring right? Yeah.

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