What is it about film and TV antiheroes that’s so captivating?
They’re entertaining, of course – but research highlights a deeper psychological reason viewers are drawn to the bad guys
by Ana Gantman & Jordan Wylie
Jordan Wylie is an NSF SBE postdoctoral fellow at Boston College in the Morality Lab, a research fellow at More in Common, and an affiliate at the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding at the University of North Carolina.
Written by Jordan Wylie