In her new book, Maggie Nelson considers why violence and gore enthrall and excite — and why cruelty is so pervasive in our culture. Maggie Nelson is the type of intellectual polymath one doesn't see ...

If this saga of two females locked in deadly psychological combat weren’t so consistently enthralling, you’d have cause to wonder what the appeal was in a series as packed with barely developed ...

A recent paper, published in the July-August issue of Aggression and Violent Behavior, reports the first ever systematic review of the link between everyday sadism and aggression, including trolling ...

When the general populace hears the term “sadism,” they may believe it applies to sexual and criminal acts. Few are trained to identify sadistic behaviour in the workplace. Leaders are rarely educated ...