"Morbid Curiosity, or Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away"

People aren't inherently terrible, but they do love witnessing terrible things. If there's an accident on the highway, traffic slows down to a crawl due as much to motorist rubbernecking as automotive debris. Eric G. Wilson, author of Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, offers insight into just why humans are so fascinated with the stuff of nightmares.