Everyday sadism

Everyday sadism (also known as subclinical sadism or simply sadism) is a personality trait characterized by the enjoyment of inflicting or witnessing pain upon other people or animals.[1] Those who fit the characteristic are referred to as sadists. Sadism has been associated with a lack of empathy,[2] and with psychopathic traits.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Buckels, E. E., Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L. (2013). Behavioral confirmation of everyday sadism. Psychological science, 24(11), 2201-2209
  2. ^ Pajevic, M., Vukosavljevic-Gvozden, T., Stevanovic, N., & Neumann, C. S. (2018). The relationship between the Dark Tetrad and a two-dimensional view of empathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 125-130.
  3. ^ Holt, S. E., & Strack, S. (1999). Sadism and psychopathy in violent and sexually violent offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, 27(1), 23-32.
  4. ^ "All of the above findings demonstrate that psychopaths and likely sexual sadists experience significant deficits in their emotional processing and experience."
    • Kirsch, Laura G., and Judith V. Becker. "Emotional deficits in psychopathy and sexual sadism: Implications for violent and sadistic behavior." Clinical psychology review 27, no. 8 (2007): 904-922.
  5. ^ "Finally, sadism is potentially more similar to psychopathy and Machiavellianism, than narcissism."
    • Bonfá-Araujo, B., Lima-Costa, A. R., Hauck-Filho, N., & Jonason, P. K. (2022). Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad. Personality and Individual Differences, 197, 111767.
  6. ^ Reidy, D. E., Zeichner, A., & Seibert, L. A. (2011). Unprovoked aggression: Effects of psychopathic traits and sadism. Journal of personality, 79(1), 75-100.