Aggressive behaviour emotionally affects sadists, finds study
Contrary
to popular belief, aggressive
behaviour brings emotional pain to sadists, a recent study has
observed.
People
with sadistic personality traits tend to be aggressive, but only enjoy their
aggressive acts if it harms their victims. However, according to a series of
studies conducted on 2000 people, these actions ultimately leave sadists
feeling worse than they felt before their actions.
"Sadistic
tendencies don't just exist in serial killers, but in everyday people
and are strongly-linked to greater aggressive behaviour," said David
Chester, lead author of the study which is published in the Journal of Society
for Personality and Social Psychology.
In
the real world, a sadist might be someone bullying others to feel better, or a
group of sports fans looking for rival fans to fight for the
"excitement" of it.
In
a lab setting, as part of the study, the scientists gauged people's aggressive
and sadistic tendencies by measuring participant's likelihood to seek vengeance
or to harm an innocent person. Read
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