MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Jan Hoffman, Well blog @ nytimes.com, Sept. 16, 2013
[....] Those who enjoy inflicting at least moderate pain on others, directly or vicariously, mingle with us daily [....]
Delroy L. Paulhus, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, calls such people “everyday sadists.”
“They exist on a spectrum,” he said. “It could be at a hockey game and your guy is pummeling the opponent into hamburger and people are standing up having orgasms, to taking revenge on those you think deserve it, to schadenfreude." [....]
There is little research on sadism, because of the ethical and moral dilemmas posed by laboratory experiments. Recruiting participants poses other hurdles.
In a study published this month in the journal Psychological Science, Dr. Paulhus and his associates developed a questionnaire and experiments to identify ordinary people with a tendency to revel in others’ suffering [....]
Comments
Found an online test
Dark Triad Personality Test
Confirmed what I already knew: I am very much not a sadist. Yea!
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 09/17/2013 - 11:59am