sadism
Sign in to saveAlso known as sadistic, everyday sadism
trait where a subject derives gratification from someone elses suffering
Research
959 papers- Sadism and Personality Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2023
- Coercive Sexual Sadism: a Systematic Qualitative Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2019
- Sexual Sadism Disorder and Coercive Paraphilic Disorder: A Scoping Review.The journal of sexual medicine · 2022
- Sadism, sadomasochism, sex, and violence.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2008
- Sadism in the context of intergroup aggression.Aggressive behavior · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- personality trait
- Subclass of
- aptitude
- Named after
- Marquis de Sade
- Image
- Shuster Nights of Horror-18.jpg
- Said to be same as
- schadenfreude
Show 4 more facts
- different from
- sexual sadism disorder
- health specialty
- psychology
- opposite of
- masochism
- studied by
- psychology
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Encyclopedic overview
Everyday sadism (also known as subclinical sadism or simply sadism) is a personality trait characterized by the enjoyment of inflicting or witnessing pain upon other people or animals. Those who fit the characteristic are referred to as "sadists" or as "sadistic". Sadism has been associated with a lack of empathy, and with psychopathic traits.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sadism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.