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Behavioral Confirmation of Everyday Sadism

Buckels, Erin E., Jones, Daniel N., Paulhus, Delroy L.·2013·Psychological Science
DOI 10.1177/0956797613490749
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Past research on socially aversive personalities has focused on subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism, and Machiavellianism-the "Dark Triad" of personality. In the research reported here, we evaluated whether an everyday form of sadism should be added to that list. Acts of apparent cruelty were captured using two laboratory procedures, and we showed that such behavior could be predicted with two measures of sadistic personality. Study 1 featured a bug-killing paradigm. As expected, sadists volunteered to kill bugs at greater rates than did nonsadists. Study 2 examined willingness to harm an innocent victim. When aggression was easy, sadism and Dark Triad measures predicted unprovoked aggression. However, only sadists were willing to work for the opportunity to hurt an innocent person. In both studies, sadism emerged as an independent predictor of behavior reflecting an appetite for cruelty. Together, these findings support the construct validity of everyday sadism and its incorporation into a new "Dark Tetrad" of personality.

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  1. Buckels E. E., 2012, Poster presented at the meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association
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Authors
Buckels, E. E., Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • The University of Texas at El Paso (US)
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2013-09-10
Volume
24
Issue
11
Pages
2201-2209
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
DOI
10.1177/0956797613490749
OpenAlex
W2123521167
Cited by
637
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 52 · 2025: 65 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 68 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 41 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 1
FWCI
22.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Association for Psychological Science
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Keywords
everyday sadism, Dark Tetrad, Dark Triad, cruelty, aggression, subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, construct validity, personality
MeSH terms
Adult, Aggression, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Female, Humans, Machiavellianism, Male, Narcissism, Personality, Sadism, Young Adult

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