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Harmful fun: Pranks and sadistic motivation

Two studies tested whether pranking is a context for observing sadistic motivation, understood as a compensatory/restorative response to insults to the self that manifests as displaced aggression. A disrespect sensitivity/anger rumination (DSAR) index outperformed a measure of dispositional sadism i...

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Published in:Motivation and emotion 2018-02, Vol.42 (1), p.90-102
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Anger
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Bullying
Clinical Psychology
Emotions
Hostility
Motivation
Original Paper
Personality and Social Psychology
Planning
Psychology
Rumination
Sadism
Sadistic personality disorder
Verbal aggression
Victims
Viewers
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