Form: Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies, VAST

1 – Strongly disagree
2 – Disagree
3 – Neither agree nor disagree
4 – Agree
5 – Strongly agree
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1
In video games, I like the realistic blood spurts.
2
I sometimes replay my favorite scenes from gory slasher films.
3
I enjoy watching cage fighting (or MMA), where there is no escape.
4
I sometimes look away in horror movies.
5
In car-racing, it's the accidents that I enjoy most.
6
There's way too much violence in sports.
7
I love the YouTube clips of people fighting.
8
I'm considered to be a kind person.
9
I enjoy physically hurting people.
10
I would never purposely humiliate someone.
11
I was purposely cruel to someone in high school.
12
By staying strong, one can better help others.
13
I enjoy hurting my partner during sex (or pretending to).
14
I can dominate others using fear.
15
I enjoy making people suffer.
16
I'd do anything – even break the law – for those I love.
17
I enjoy mocking losers to their face.
18
I never said mean things to my parents.
19
I go out of my way to help family members.
20
I enjoy tormenting animals – especially the nasty ones.
21
I have ambitions to make the world a better place.
22
My goal is to be a missionary and help others.
23
I give money to poor people on the street.
24
I'm worried that we have already seriously damaged the Earth.
25
I want to spend my life helping sick children.
26
I have had some really good friends.

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