The prevalence of domestic violence (DV) is an increasing public health concern globally.
This paper outlines the current literature on what is known about DV proclivity, with particular …

Objective This research seeks to clarify the association between online trolling and sadistic
personality, and to provide evidence that the reward and rationalization processes at work in …

Previous research has demonstrated that people who are callous are more likely to be
interpersonally aggressive. The present study extends this finding to research on the “Dark …

Antiheroes—protagonists who are often depicted as Machiavellian, narcissistic, or
psychopathic (Dark Triad traits)—have garnered recent empirical attention. Research has …

In response to the same moral violation, some people report experiencing anger, and others
report feeling disgust. Do differences in emotional responses to moral violations reflect …

Sadism is a “dark” trait that involves the experience of pleasure from others' pain, yet much is
unknown about its link to aggression. Across eight studies (total N= 2,255), sadism predicted …

Although adolescents around the world play video games, little is known about their
longitudinal effects on adolescents from Eastern countries. This large longitudinal violent …

Previous studies have shown that violent video game exposure is associated with
aggression; however, little is known about the relationship between video game violence …

Mental health problems, behavior changes, and addictive issues have been consistently
documented among healthcare workers during the pandemic. The objective of this study …

Building on research that has suggested that perceiving conspirators to have evil intentions
and that trait anger relates to conspiracy beliefs, the present research tested the hypothesis …