# Prof. Jonathan Haidt discusses why some people want to listen to the Newtown 911 tapes

1 Faculty News December 4, 2013 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://science.time.com/2013/12/04/what-listening-to-the-newtown-911-recordings-says-about-you/) -- “'Our lives are circumscribed by our everyday circumstances,' says [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a psychologist and ethicist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'When bad things happen, we want to know about them. This is why people rubberneck at traffic accidents.'”
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