4 reasons why people are drawn to a good mystery that are rooted in psychology
is to never show blood and gore—precisely the disgusting stuff of Wardley’s study. But there’s another kind of disgust that likely plays a role in whodunits:, or the repulsive reaction the audience feels toward those off-putting elements of characters who are selfish, mean, greedy, immoral, and generally unkind., and moral disgust.
Now imagine a group of unsavory characters, each a suspected murderer, stuck together on a remote island—as Christie wrote in her noveland Johnson gave us in “Glass Onion”—and you’re getting the idea. Whodunits may be neurologically compelling to us when they have elements in common which pull on our moral strings, including:A sympathetic loved one or friend of the victim who seeks justice.
By working with the conclusions of these studies, we can venture to say that there are compelling psychological explanations for why we love to hate unkind characters, and how we are driven to see justice served—so much so, that we just can’t look away until the fun over.Taylor, Pamela Marie , Uchida, Yukiko . “Horror, fear, and moral disgust are differentially elicited by different types of harm.
Wardley, Marcus . “That’s disgusting! Why disgust increases enjoyment of crime dramas.” Psychology of Popular Media, Vol 11, Oct 2022, 395-401
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