^Dictionary.com, definition, psychological thriller (definition) (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Accessed November 3, 2013, "...a suspenseful movie or book emphasizing the psychology of its characters rather than the plot; this subgenre of thriller movie or book – Example: In a psychological thriller, the characters are exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one....",
^Christopher Pittard, Blackwell Reference, Psychological Thrillers (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Accessed November 3, 2013, "...characteristics of the genre as “a dissolving sense of reality; reticence in moral pronouncements; obsessive, pathological characters; the narrative privileging of complex, tortured relationships” ( Munt 1994)..."