I'm Offering You My Pain: Priming COVID-19 Salience Increases Everyday Sadism.

• Tác giả: Heng Li
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 331.1204 Labor force and market
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Psychological reports , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 699409

Tóm tắt

The COVID-19 pandemic and its link to the emergence of everyday sadism is a matter of public concern worldwide. However, previous studies are nearly silent regarding the causal relationship between the two variables. We address this gap by theorizing that exposure to information about coronavirus can increase sadistic behavior by inducing state boredom. We conducted three complementary controlled experiments, which comprised multiple participants populations (