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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Sadism"”.
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The Assessment of Subclinical Sexual Sadism (Asss): Scale Development, Validation, and Nomological Network Comparisons with Everyday Sadism
Sexual sadism has long been of interest to scholars and clinicians in psychology, and most research on sexual sadism to date has focused on forensic samples. However, more recently, research has uncovered the existence of sexual sadism in subclinical populations. Measures designed to assess the …
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Sex, sadism and spain: the spanish horror film, 1968-1977
<p>This project explores how a group of films produced, distributed and exhibited under the crumbling dictatorship of Francisco Franco's Spain can potentially lead us to a better understanding of the political, social and cultural conditions during this contentious period in Spain's long history. …
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A pscyhometric investigation of the comprehensive assessment of sadistic tendencies (cast): Evidence from factor analysis and item response theory
Sadism research has grown exponentially in recent years, establishing the trait as a key predictor of cruel behaviors (bullying, aggression, internet trolling). However, empirical validations of the most popular sadism measure are needed. To address this, we administered the comprehensive …
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The nature and effect of sexual sadistic actions on non-consenting female victims in South Africa
… inimitable and elusive nature of criminal sexual sadism, there is a paucity of research on the phenomenon compared to other sexual offences. The phenomenon has not yet received notable attention and is under-recognised worldwide. Sexual sadism therefore often remains a challenging phenomenon to …
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Gender and counterproductive work behavior (CWB): a personality-based explanatory model
… gap, using personality traits (narcissism, sadism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional intelligence) and sex role orientation (agency and communion) to explain the gap. Study 1 uses meta-analytic structural equation modeling to estimate the mediating effects of narcissism, …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… attention as merely the passive forms of sadism, or sadomasochism (Mario Praz). As Jennifer Birkett suggests, Decadent sensibility and sexuality have arguably less affinity with Sade than Sacher-Masoch. Following Birkett, and utilising Gilles Deleuze’s idea of the independence of masochism …
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Lies in the dark: An analysis of dark personality traits and dishonesty
… deceitfulness, narcissistic entitlement, sadism, and vindictiveness (Bader et al., 2021). Existing research indicates that individuals exhibiting higher levels of dark traits tend to engage in more frequent dishonesty (Jonason et al., 2014; Zvi & Elaad, 2018). However, previous studies …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history and theory of BDSM. The remaining chapters explore concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence in three Middle English texts, Sir Gowther, The Book of …
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Sexual harassment proclivity : dimensionality and individual differences
… traits and beliefs—including empathy, sadism, psychopathy, and several scales related to adversarial beliefs about the opposite sex. This design enabled assessment of (a) whether the factors could be predicted by the same individual differences, and (b) which individual differences may …
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Early Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Impact of the Gothic
… confinement, paranoia, repression, sexual sadism, and the taboo were all basic to the genre.
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The Subaltern Clinic
… consider the problems of difference, violence, sadism and masochism, and anxiety in the work of colonial and postcolonial practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as postcolonial artists and novelists. The Subaltern Clinic makes the argument that an attention to the legacy of the death drive in …
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T.H. White and the matter of Lancelot.
… However, Lancelot overcomes his cruelty and sadism, and he faces the consequences of his adultery and his immorality with heroic courage. In his triumph over the darkness within himself, Lancelot finds a sense of fulfillment and peace which is rare in the modern age.
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The dichotomy of ‘them and us’ thinking in Counselling Psychology incorporating an empirical study on BDSM
… and Discipline; Dominance and Submission; and Sadism and Masochism (BDSM). Given the wide range of activities that fall under the umbrella of BDSM (Weinberg, 2006), along with the associated stigma of BDSM (Wright, 2006), the exact prevalence of people engaging in it is unknown. However, the …
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
… voices in games. Gamergate’s performative sadism is another expression of how mainstream game cultures articulate masculine anxiety through feminine-coded suffering.
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Kiwi Kinksters: BDSM in Auckland, New Zealand
… Bondage, Discipline, Dominance/Submission and/or Sadism/Masochism, and is interchangeably used throughout this thesis with the acronym BDSM) – the first of its kind in New Zealand – constitutes the bulk of this dissertation. Alongside direct observations made by the researcher-participant, 21 …
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A study of ten sadist women for signs of specific patterns throughout the school years
<p>The purpose of this study was to discover whether there was a specific pattern apparent in the school years of lifestyle sadist women that caused them to become sadists. The results showed no specific pattern that would lead one to believe there was a cause but some irregular percentages did …
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Penyimpangan seksual dalam rumah tangga sebagai tindak kekerasan perspektif Undang-Undang nomor 23 tahun 2004
… maupun hukum, misalnya saja suami melakukan sadisme seksual terhadap istrinya. Penyimpangan seksual dalam rumah tangga jelas telah melanggar hak istri, karena seks adalah juga haknya. Aktivitas seksual yang didalamnya terdapat unsur penyimpangan seksual menyebabkan hanya pihak suami saja yang …