...Pedro Pechorro; Claudia Mazzeschi; Carlo Garofalo; Elisa Delvecchio; Matt DeLisi Purpose Antagonistic personality traits such as those captured in Dark Tetrad measures (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism) are an emerging area in the study of aversive and antisocial personality...

...Jessica Avery Lee; Allison Caroline Drody; James Danckert Purpose The authors examined whether state boredom, psychopathy, sadism and trait boredom proneness would increase the tendency to inflict physical pain on others. Previous research suggests that state boredom increases aggression...

... Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sexual homicide Typology Body disposal Sadism Crime scene analysis Naked Body disposal in sexual homicide has recently seen more emerging research (Chai et al., 2021a ; Reale and Beauregard, 2019...

... cluster. Originality/value This is the first study to examine the dimensionality of sadism within a sample of SHOs. Some researchers have also sought to examine whether crime scene indicators could be used to differentiate sadists from other sexual offenders. For instance, Healey et al...