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Description: This larger research project investigates the neuroscience of some of people's "stranger" individual differences in morbid curiosity (curiosity for negative things like watching videos of traffic accidents, medical operations or documentaries on serial killers), true crime consumption (people's interest in narrations of real-life criminal cases), perception of meaningful coincidences, creativity, and emotion regulation via the capacity for cognitive reappraisal. It's main purpose is to trace individual differences from a neuroscientific perspective by utilizing resting-state scans from adult participants. fMRI resting-state scans indicating functional connectivity (rs-fc) of brain regions at rest were conducted in a sample of n = 133 participants in total. Additionally, various questionnaires and test were administered (all in German). MRI analyses were performed with the CONN toolbox. https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds004965/versions/1.0.1 a) Demographic data (gender, age, education, income, relationship status, living area, psychiatric/neurological diagnosis) b) true crime consumption and motivations (McDonald et al., 2021) c) Morbid curiosity (Scrivner, 2021) d) Big-5 personality (Rammstedt et al., 2013) e) Dark triad (Malesza et al., 2019) f) Depressive symptoms (Hautzinger & Bailer, 1993) g) Trait anxiety (Spielberger, 2001) h) Perceived stress (Klein et al., 2016) i) Resilience (Chmitorz et al., 2018) j) Aggression (Bryant & Smith, 2001) k) Meaningful coincidences (Bressan, 2002) l) Likelihood of victimization (Kerestly, 2021) m) Media preferences (Scrivner, 2021) n) Cognitive emotion regulation (Loch et al., 2011) o) Cognitive reappraisal capacity (Weber et al., 2014) p) Malevolent creativity (Perchtold-Stefan et al., 2021)