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Cognitive Psychology Dark Personality Psychology

What is the Main Character Syndrome?

Have you ever felt that you are the hero/heroine of your story? Do you feel as if everything in your world has an effect on your ‘story’? Or, let me put it this way: have you ever felt that you are completely different from everyone around you? If you have felt this, then chances are […]

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Dark Personality Psychology

An Introduction to Sadism

Sadism is a psychological construct which has a relatively sparse amount of scientific literature. This is odd as sadism as a literary construct has been under study for centuries. According to Meloy (1997), sadism is basically getting pleasure from someone else’s physical or mental pain or from controlling and dominating them. Sadists are also known […]