Common, nonsexual masochistic preferences are positively associated with antisocial personality traits
| Autor: | Christina Sagioglou, Tobias Greitemeyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Psychopathy social values Social value orientations sensation seeking Choice Behavior Pleasure disgust sensitivity Masochism medicine Humans Sensation seeking Antisocial personality media_common Self Sadism Original Articles Antisocial Personality Disorder medicine.disease humanities Disgust benign masochism Hedonism Original Article Female antisocial personality traits Psychology Personality Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality |
| ISSN: | 1467-6494 0022-3506 |
| Popis: | Objective Based on prior research linking masochism and antisocial behavior to sensation seeking, we hypothesized that masochistic and antisocial preferences are positively correlated. Besides sensation seeking, we tested whether disgust sensitivity (due to its inhibitory function) and shared social values (e.g., stimulation) accounted for the masochistic‐antisocial link. We additionally examined the link in relation to broad personality factors. Method Six online and laboratory studies (N = 2,999) with US‐American and European samples. Results We consistently found positive correlations between masochistic enjoyment (e.g., enjoying the burn of spicy food, disgusting jokes, pounding heart, painful massage) and antisocial traits such as subclinical psychopathy, everyday sadism, and low Honesty‐Humility. We observed behavioral correlations in that experienced pleasure of a painful event was positively related to causing another person to feel pain. Shared sensation seeking, low disgust sensitivity, and endorsement of social values such as social power, hedonism, and a stimulating life partially accounted for the masochistic‐antisocial link. Conclusion The extent to which a person enjoys threatening stimuli on the self is reliably related to how much a person enjoys and evokes others' suffering. Future research could explore the common core that underlies common masochistic and antisocial preferences beyond the mediators tested here. |
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