Sadism and Personality Disorders
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2023 Abstract Purpose of Review Sadistic pleasure—the enjoyment of harm-infliction to others—can have devastating interpersonal and societal consequences. The goal of the current review is to illuminate the nomological net of traits related to sadism.
Jill Lobbestael +2 more
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Would the Real Trait Sadism Please Stand Up? On the Factor Structure of Trait Sadism
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective We analyzed the items of trait sadism measures to identify a coherent, hierarchical factor structure. Background Numerous models and measures purport to assess trait sadism. Some of these measures overlap to a limited extent only. Simultaneously, trait sadism measures show strong redundancies with measures of psychopathy.
Christian Blötner +3 more
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Impact of Personality Types on Sadism and Schadenfreude in Adults
Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, 2022 Objective: The study examined the impact of personality types on sadism and schadenfreude in adults. Study type, settings & duration: This descriptive study was conducted at Sargodah District from October 2019 to December 2020.
Mehreen Liaqat +2 more
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Sadism, Psychopathy, and Sexual Offending
, 2018 Sadism, Psychopathy, and Sexual ...
Sonja Krstic +9 more
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Bringing Light Into the Dark: Associations of Fire Interest and Fire Setting With the Dark Tetrad
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Fire setting is a significant problem for society, costing many human lives and causing great property damage. One important risk factor of fire setting observed in forensic samples is fire interest.
Caroline Wehner +3 more
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Disentangling Counter-Empathy: Developing a Three-Dimensional Model and Measure of Dispositional Counter-Empathy. [PDF]
J PersABSTRACT Objectives Counter‐empathy involves responding to others' assumed emotions incongruently. Research on dispositional counter‐empathy predominantly focuses on specific counter‐empathic constructs without clearly mapping its cardinal dimensions.
Siamro JR, Jordan CH.
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A functionalist approach to online trolling
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Online trolling is often linked to sadism and psychopathy. Yet, little research has assessed why people high in these traits seek online environments to achieve their nefarious goals.
Lewis Nitschinsk +2 more
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Sadistic murders in medicine and criminal law in Iran [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2023 VThe importance of murder is understandable not only in terms of the amount of punishment provided for it, but also due to the determination of criminal liability in this type of crime which has been controversial.
Ali Kakoo juybari +2 more
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The Dark Tetrad in the prediction of self-reported and behavioural risk-taking
Australian Journal of Psychology, 2021 Objective The explanatory power of the Dark Tetrad of personality (i.e., sub-clinical traits of sadism, psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism) in the prediction of risk-taking behaviours is yet to be determined.
Deborah Nott, Benjamin R. Walker
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Dark personality traits and job performance of employees: The mediating role of perfectionism, stress, and social media addiction [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2021 The purpose of this study was to explore the indirect and direct relationships of Big-5 and dark personality traits (i.e., extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and ...
Mehmet Kiziloglu +4 more
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