Past research on determinants of victim blaming mainly concentrated on individuals' just-world beliefs as motivational process underlying this harsh reaction to others' suffering. The present work provides novel insights regarding underlying affective processes by showing how individuals prone to derive pleasure from others' suffering-individuals high in everyday sadism-engage in victim blaming due to increased sadistic pleasure and reduced empathic concern they experience. Results of three cross-sectional studies and one ambulatory assessment study applying online experience sampling method (ESM; overall N = 2,653) document this association. Importantly, the relation emerged over and above the honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness personality model (Study 1a), and other so-called dark traits (Study 1b), across different cultural backgrounds (Study 1c), and also when sampling from a population of individuals frequently confronted with victim-perpetrator constellations: police officers (Study 1d). Studies 2 and 3 highlight a significant behavioral correlate of victim blaming. Everyday sadism is related to reduced willingness to engage in effortful cognitive activity as individuals high (vs. low) in everyday sadism recall less information regarding victim-perpetrator constellations of sexual assault. Results obtained in the ESM study (Study 4) indicate that the relation of everyday sadism, sadistic pleasure, and victim blaming holds in everyday life and is not significantly moderated by interpersonal closeness to the blamed victim or impactfulness of the incident. Overall, the present article extends our understanding of what determines innocent victims' derogation and highlights emotional mechanisms, societal relevance, and generalizability of the observed associations beyond the laboratory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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我喜欢它，因为它伤害了你：关于日常施虐、施虐快感和受害者责备的关联。

过去关于受害人指责的决定因素的研究主要集中在个人的正义世界信念作为对他人痛苦的严厉反应背后的动机过程。目前的工作提供了关于潜在情感过程的新见解，展示了个人如何倾向于从他人的痛苦中获得快乐——日常施虐倾向高的个体——由于他们体验到的施虐快感增加和移情关注减少而导致受害者责备。三项横断面研究和一项采用在线体验抽样方法（ESM；总体 N = 2,653）的门诊评估研究的结果记录了这种关联。重要的是，这种关系出现在诚实谦逊、情绪化、外向性、宜人性、尽责性和开放性人格模型之上（研究 1a），和其他所谓的黑暗特征（研究 1b），跨越不同的文化背景（研究 1c），以及从经常面对受害者-犯罪者星座的人群中抽样：警察（研究 1d）。研究 2 和 3 强调了受害人责备的重要行为相关性。日常施虐与参与努力认知活动的意愿降低有关，因为日常施虐高（相对于低）的个体回忆起有关性侵犯受害者-施暴者星座的信息较少。在 ESM 研究（研究 4）中获得的结果表明，日常施虐、施虐快感和责备受害者的关系在日常生活中存在，并且不会因与受责备受害者的人际关系亲密程度或事件的影响力而显着缓和。全面的，本文扩展了我们对决定无辜受害者贬损的因素的理解，并强调了实验室以外观察到的关联的情感机制、社会相关性和普遍性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。