Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity

Research into dark personalities has advocated for the addition of sadism due to its close relationship with other dark traits (Book et al., 2016). Lower disgust for atavistic and animalistic tendencies may provide an objective marker of the greater predatory tendencies and desire for power represen...

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Main Authors: Meere, Myrthe, Egan, Vincent
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Published: Elsevier 2017
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description Research into dark personalities has advocated for the addition of sadism due to its close relationship with other dark traits (Book et al., 2016). Lower disgust for atavistic and animalistic tendencies may provide an objective marker of the greater predatory tendencies and desire for power represented by everyday sadism. In the present study, we explored self-reported personality and disgust traits underlying non-sexual ‘everyday’ sadism (Buckels, Jones & Paulhus, 2013). In line with previous research, it was predicted sadism would be negatively correlated with the honesty-humility, agreeableness and emotionality dimensions of the HEXACO, and positively correlated with psychopathy and Machiavellianism from the Dark Triad. As an added dimension, the study also investigated disgust sensitivity’s relationship to sadism. A total of 235 participants (66.4% female, 31.1% male; mean age 31.35 years (SD = 13.97 years)) completed an online survey comprising a series of psychometric measures. Results indicated that extraversion, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and animal reminder disgust were significant predictors of sadism scores. Future studies may want to include a measure of disgust sensitivity (including behavioral indices) to investigate its relationship with sadism and the DT.
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spelling nottingham-409492020-05-04T18:52:49Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40949/ Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity Meere, Myrthe Egan, Vincent Research into dark personalities has advocated for the addition of sadism due to its close relationship with other dark traits (Book et al., 2016). Lower disgust for atavistic and animalistic tendencies may provide an objective marker of the greater predatory tendencies and desire for power represented by everyday sadism. In the present study, we explored self-reported personality and disgust traits underlying non-sexual ‘everyday’ sadism (Buckels, Jones & Paulhus, 2013). In line with previous research, it was predicted sadism would be negatively correlated with the honesty-humility, agreeableness and emotionality dimensions of the HEXACO, and positively correlated with psychopathy and Machiavellianism from the Dark Triad. As an added dimension, the study also investigated disgust sensitivity’s relationship to sadism. A total of 235 participants (66.4% female, 31.1% male; mean age 31.35 years (SD = 13.97 years)) completed an online survey comprising a series of psychometric measures. Results indicated that extraversion, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and animal reminder disgust were significant predictors of sadism scores. Future studies may want to include a measure of disgust sensitivity (including behavioral indices) to investigate its relationship with sadism and the DT. Elsevier 2017-07-01 Article PeerReviewed Meere, Myrthe and Egan, Vincent (2017) Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 112 . pp. 157-161. ISSN 0191-8869 sadism Dark Triad Dark Tetrad HEXACO personality disgust sensitivity http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917301459 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.056 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.056
spellingShingle sadism
Dark Triad
Dark Tetrad
HEXACO
personality
disgust sensitivity
Meere, Myrthe
Egan, Vincent
Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title_full Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title_fullStr Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title_full_unstemmed Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title_short Everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
title_sort everyday sadism, dark triad, personality and disgust sensitivity
topic sadism
Dark Triad
Dark Tetrad
HEXACO
personality
disgust sensitivity
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