Re: Captured by true crime: Why women are drawn to tales of rape, murder and serial killers


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On Jan 15, 12:45 am, "Chocolic" <chatter...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hell Toupee wrote:
>>http://www.physorg.com/news182524723.html

>> Captured by true crime: Why women are drawn to tales of rape, murder >> and
>> serial killers

>> (January 12, 2010) Women are more drawn to true crime books than are >> men,
>> according to research in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological >> and
>> Personality Science (published by SAGE).

>> The true crime genre of nonfiction books is based on gruesome topics >> such
>> as rape and murder. Many people might assume that men, being the more
>> aggressive sex, would be most likely to find such gory topics
>> interesting.

>> The researchers found that what makes these books appealing to women >> are
>> relevant in terms of preventing or surviving a crime. For example, by
>> understanding why an individual decides to kill, a woman can learn the
>> warning signs to watch for in a jealous lover or stranger. By learning
>> escape tips women learn survival strategies they can use if actually
>> kidnapped or held captive.

>> It is possible that reading these books may actually increase the very
>> fear that drives women toward them in the first place. In other words, >> a
>> vicious cycle may be occurring: A woman fears becoming the victim of a
>> crime so she turns to true crime books in a possible effort to learn
>> strategies and techniques to prevent becoming murdered. However, with
>> each true crime book she reads, this woman learns about another >> murderer
>> and his victims, thereby increasing her awareness and fear of crime.

>> "It is not possible to state with certainty from these studies whether >> or
>> not this vicious cycle occurs," write authors Amanda M. Vicary and R.
>> Chris Fraley. "But we do know that women, compared to men, have a
>> heightened fear of crime despite the fact that they are less likely to
>> become a victim."

>> More information: The article "Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women
>> Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?" in the inaugural
>> issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science is available free
>> for a limited time athttp://spp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/1/81.

> I wonder how they made that conclusion the reason is victim > preparedness.
> I've read t-c since I can recall, and was mainly interested by the
> freak-factor - that is, how can someone be so weird that they'd like to > do
> <whatever>. As a young person, pre-teen, I used to read a lot of the > early
> founders of psychology, for lack of a better term, like Freud, Jung,
> Skinner... looking for insight. Further, nothing I read about sks
> prevented me from engaging in dangerous activities like becoming best
> friends with someone I just met, or taking rides, so I really don't > think
> my interest was based on avoiding victimization. I think I was more
> interested in mental illness, or something along those lines.

> Interesting article, though!

I was just getting ready to post a response to (quoting the article) "A
woman fears becoming the victim of a
crime so she turns to true crime books in a possible effort to learn
strategies and techniques to prevent becoming murdered...." was utter
bullshit. Glad I waited to read your more civil response. lol

I read about those crimes when I was a kid because my mom was fascinated by
it and had all the detective-type magazines laying around. I also liked the
freak-factor. As an adult I've always read it out of curiosity and have
always been interested in what makes people tick that could do such
atrocities to other people. I have a hard time reading the actual details
of the murder especially when it's first hand info, remember Trawick posting
his gory details on this ng a few years back? They bothered me horrible for
a long long time and wished I hadn't read the posts.

Though the article was interesting, it was uttler bullshit.

Chocolic- Hide quoted text -

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Are Trawicks postings still available? I missed that.

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You should be able to find them in Google Groups and searching for Trawick in the ATC newsgroup. He posted thru another poster that had access to the computer. It was awful. There was also a web site. The families of the victims were understandably outraged. I'm pretty sure the web site was shut down.

Chocolic

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