Form: Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tendencies, CAST

1 – Strongly disagree
2 – Disagree
3 – Something in between
4 – Agree
5 – Strongly agree
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1
I enjoy physically hurting people.
2
I enjoy tormenting people.
3
I have the right to push certain people around.
4
I have dominated others using fear.
5
I enjoy hurting my partner during sex (or pretending to).
6
I was purposely mean to some people in high school.
7
I enjoy making jokes at the expense of others.
8
I have purposely tricked someone and laughed when they looked foolish.
9
When making fun of someone, it is especially amusing if they realize what I'm doing.
10
Perhaps I shouldn't have, but I never got tired of mocking certain classmates.
11
I would never purposely humiliate someone.
12
In video games, I like the realistic blood spurts.
13
I enjoy watching cage fighting (or MMA), where there is no escape.
14
I love to watch YouTube clips of people fighting.
15
I sometimes replay my favorite scenes from gory slasher films.
16
There's way too much violence in sports.
17
I enjoy playing the villain in games and torturing other characters.
18
In professional car-racing, it's the accidents that I enjoy most.

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