An experiment found people high in everyday sadism would do extra unpaid work just for the chance to hurt someone who hadn’t provoked them, and a separate study of over 1,200 people found that same trait, not being blunt or opinionated, was what predicted genuine enjoyment of trolling strangers onli

A personality trait distinct from mere bluntness predicts who will voluntarily inflict pain on innocent people, both in the lab and online. The post An experiment found people high in everyday sadism would do extra unpaid work just for the chance to hurt some…