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A Functional Perspective on Everyday Sadism
Everyday sadism is thus far a poorly operationalized personality trait. In its current conceptualization it offers predictive value for aggressive behavior over and above the effects of other antisocial personality traits.
Russell, Marley
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Subclinical Sadism and the Dark Triad:Should There Be a Dark Tetrad?
The Dark Triad is a constellation of three antisocial personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Recently, researchers have introduced a "Dark Tetrad" that includes subclinical sadism, although others suggest considerable overlap ...
Johnson, Laura K. +2 more
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The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale: Cross-validation and scale properties.
The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SSSS) is a screening device for the file-based assessment of forensically relevant sexual sadism. The SSSS consists of 11 dichotomous (yes/no) items that code behavioral indicators of severe sexual sadism within sexual ...
Andreas Mokros +7 more
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Atheism and Sadism: Nietzsche and Woolf on Post-God Discourse
In the western world, twentieth-century literature has been an extended experience of atheism and sadism. Lest this claim not seem dogmatic enough, let me put it differently, more boldly: this century has been an attempt to ingest and digest Nietzsche ...
Lackey, Michael
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An anatomical commentary on the concept of infantile oral sadism
Although this paper is entitled 'An anatomical commentary on the concept of infantile oral sadism' it is also an attempt to examine hypotheses regarding the sources of oral sadism.
Freeman, Thomas, Freeman, Ruth; id_orcid
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Sexual sadism continues to be a diagnosis fraught with controversy concerning its reliability and validity. The current study examined the offense behavior of 39 civilly committed sexual offenders diagnosed with sexual sadism compared to a group of ...
Henry Richards, Rebecca L. Jackson
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Toward distinguishing and validating the trait concepts prosocial sadism and antisocial sadism
This project and related studies, ideas, and cited literature aim to validate the constructs prosocial and antisocial sadism. Content contained herein will be applicable to relevant copyright law.
Jennifer M Davis +2 more
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Disentangling Sadism from schadenfreude as traits using latent construct modeling
Sadism represents a predisposition towards enjoying the suffering that an individual causes to others. However, this conceptualization of Sadism closely abuts that of schadenfreude—finding pleasure in others’ suffering.
David Chester, Drew M. Parton
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Testing the distinction between sadism and psychopathy: a metanalysis
The relationships among the Dark Triad (DT) traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—are well-established in psychological literature. However, with the inclusion of everyday sadism in the proposed Dark Tetrad, it is important to determine ...
Bonfá-Araujo, Bruno +5 more
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Electronic Thesis or DissertationSexual sadism has long been of interest to scholars and clinicians in psychology, and most research on sexual sadism to date has focused on forensic samples. However, more recently, research has uncovered the existence of
Cease, Charlotte Kinrade
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