Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck Why We Can't Look Away

Name: Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck Why We Can't Look Away
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ISBN: 9780374533700

ISBN-10: 0374533709

ISBN-13: 9780374533700

Edition: 2013

Authors: Eric G. Wilson, Eric G. Wilson

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Why can’t we look away?Whether we admit it or not, we’re fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we’re still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there’s no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? InEveryone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the gruesome, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 4.80" wide x 7.20" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English