Hollywood's true crime obsession: Why Kim Kardashian, Kristen Bell, Lady Gaga and more are hooked
foxnews.comIf you've been sleeping with the lights on after binging terrifying true crime shows, you're not alone. It seems everyone - including Hollywood's biggest stars - has become obsessed with true crime as streaming platform Netflix and more release shows, podcasts and movies about real life mysteries.
Fox News Digital spoke to psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig who explained why society, and celebrities, are so fascinated by these horrific real life crimes. "I think human beings, first of all, love a mystery and we also love extremes," Ludwig explained. "So there's something really fascinating about watching a true story from the safety of our own homes and peeking into the psychic mechanisms behind these criminals.
So they're like us, but not like us." Ludwig explained that the ways criminals are not like us is "intriguing." "People who are functioning well in society, we have empathy.
We can consider other people from their vantage point. And when we look at some of these criminals, what's interesting is that they are like us in some ways, but the ways in which they're not like us is very intriguing." "And it gets us to ask ourselves the question, What went wrong?
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