Prioritizing Harm

Moyer, Katherine H.; McEvoy, Joseph P.; Mabe, P. Alex; Buchanan, Erin Michelle; Venkatesan, Akhilesh; Buckley, Peter F.

doi:10.1080/00223891.2016.1180625

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“…We strengthened prior knowledge of the relationship between impulsivity and spite (Rodgers & Dahling, 2018; Zeigler-Hill & Vonk, 2015) and extended what was found among college students to the offender sample (Marcus et al, 2014). Our results are in line with a conceptualization of spiteful behavior as the outcome of a peculiar will to punish others, externalizing the desire with aggressive acts and without adequate foresight (Moyer et al, 2017; Rodgers & Dahling, 2018).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Given that “spiteful behavior may often result from a tendency to externalize and a desire to punish others for their perceived transgressions” (Marcus et al, 2014, p. 3), one can expect it to be linked with aggression. Spiteful individuals are characterized by the tendency to prioritize damaging others, even if that means damaging themselves (Moyer et al, 2017). They show low levels of theory of mind, moral values, and remorse (Ewing, Zeigler-Hill, & Vonk, 2016; Marcus et al, 2014; Zeigler-Hill, Noser, Roof, Vonk, & Marcus, 2015) as well as an instrumental use of self-punishment (Marcus et al, 2014; Shabad, 2000).…”

Section: Pn and Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aggression Among Offenders: The Complex Interplay by Grandiose Narcissism, Spitefulness, and Impulsivity

Rogier

Marzo²,

Velotti

2019

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Impulsivity seems closely related to both narcissism and spitefulness as a potential common pathway by which these pathological personality traits lead to violence. We administered the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), the Pathological Narcissism Inventory, the Spitefulness Scale, and the Impulsive Behavior Scale Short Form to a sample of individuals convicted of violent offenses ( n = 182) and a sample of community participants ( n = 203). Hierarchical regression analysis of the convicted sample showed that spitefulness predicted AQ scores positively and significantly beyond the roles of both pathological narcissism and impulsivity. Finally, mediation analyses showed that impulsivity partially mediated the relationships between aggression and both grandiose narcissism and spitefulness. Our results support the hypothesis that spitefulness plays an important role in the prediction of aggressiveness. Finally, impulsivity seems to be a central common variable that explains the relationship between pathological personality traits and aggressive behavior among individuals convicted of violent offenses.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Pn and Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aggression Among Offenders: The Complex Interplay by Grandiose Narcissism, Spitefulness, and Impulsivity

Rogier

Marzo²,

Velotti

2019

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Shame and guilt subscores were used as mediators in the model. The short form has been previously shown to be adequately reliable and valid and to correlate highly with the longer shame ( r = .94) and guilt ( r = .93) subscales (Moyer et al., 2017; Tangney and Dearing, 2002).…”

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The relationship between impulsivity and shame and guilt proneness on the prediction of internalizing and externalizing behaviors

Sanchez

Clark

Fields

2019

Heliyon

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Shame and guilt are responses to moral transgressions that are characterized by negative self-evaluations and negative behavioral-evaluations, respectively. Previous research has found shame to be the more maladaptive of these “self-conscious” emotions due to its association with various health-risk behaviors. In the current study, undergraduate participants (n = 199) from a large, public university completed behavioral and self-report measures of impulsivity, shame and guilt-proneness, and behavioral tendencies. Exploratory factor analysis and mediation models were used to determine if shame and/or guilt-proneness significantly mediate the relationship between impulsivity and internalized/externalized problems. Findings demonstrate that impulsivity and shame proneness both positively predict internalized and externalized problem behavior, but indirect effects of shame and guilt are not significant. These findings indicate that shame and guilt do not reliably mediate the relationship between impulsivity and problem behavior, but they do support previous findings on the maladaptive nature of impulsivity and shame. Implications for the protective nature of guilt proneness are also discussed.

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“…Spitefulness is the trait-like tendency to harm oneself to harm others (Marcus et al, 2014). Both clinical (Moyer et al, 2017) and nonclinical (Kimbrough & Reiss, 2012) samples suggest that approximately 25% of people exhibit high levels of spitefulness. Cross-sectional studies have shown that spitefulness is generally associated with antisocial or maladaptive personality traits.…”

Section: Spitefulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who finds media violence funny? Testing the effects of media violence exposure and dark personality traits.

Allen¹,

Ash²,

Anderson³

2022

Psychology of Popular Media

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The popularity and commercial success of electronic media that pair humor with violence suggests that many people enjoy laughing at screen media violence. But who is most likely to find media violence funny? To answer this question, we measured media violence exposure, dark personality traits, and the extent to which participants found media violence humorous in 2 cross-sectional survey studies with samples of undergraduate students (Study 1 N = 215; Study 2 N = 178). Across the 2 studies, we assessed moral disengagement, the dark triad, spitefulness, sadism, and proneness to schadenfreude as dark personality traits. Among other findings, men with high exposure to media violence, those who score high on sadism, and those who are prone to moral disengagement and schadenfreude were the most likely to find media violence funny. These were the most consistent associations; they were of small-to-moderate size. Thus, those who laugh the hardest at media violence may have the darkest personalities. Public Policy Relevance StatementTwo studies demonstrated that finding humor in media violence is positively related to the male gender, exposure to media violence, and the dark personality traits of sadism, moral disengagement, and schadenfreude. These findings suggest that TV shows, movies, and video games that pair humor with violence are enjoyed the most by men with dark personalities and a history of violent media use. The findings also support developmental models that suggest that frequent exposure to violent media can affect personality in socially maladaptive ways.

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Prioritizing Harm

Cited by 5 publications

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Aggression Among Offenders: The Complex Interplay by Grandiose Narcissism, Spitefulness, and Impulsivity

Aggression Among Offenders: The Complex Interplay by Grandiose Narcissism, Spitefulness, and Impulsivity

The relationship between impulsivity and shame and guilt proneness on the prediction of internalizing and externalizing behaviors

Who finds media violence funny? Testing the effects of media violence exposure and dark personality traits.

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