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  1. AHAKO @[email protected] ·

    The appeal of others' suffering

    Study by Buckels, Jones & Paulhus (2013, Univ. of British Columbia): given the chance, high-sadism participants readily killed bugs — and even took on a boring extra task just for the chance to blast an innocent opponent with noise.

    No purpose, no gain: the pleasure of harm itself was the motive.

    Researchers proposed adding "sadism" as a fourth trait to form the "Dark Tetrad."
    Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/240226
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