Depressing Study " Psychology / Psychiatry: Cruel behavior has reward value for 'everyday sadists' "

It's almost as if these researchers wrote this for league of legends.... and they have some rather depressing conclusions:

Buckels says:

"Some find it hard to reconcile sadism with the concept of 'normal psychological functioning, but our findings show that sadistic tendencies among otherwise well-adjusted people must be acknowledged."

She says sadists "aren't necessarily serial killers or sexual deviants, but they gain some emotional benefit in causing or simply observing others' suffering."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266095.php?sr

The team is continuing to investigate sadism as it applies to online trolling behavior and enjoying cruelty in movies, video games and sports. Their findings could potentially affect research or policy on domestic abuse, bullying, animal abuse and military or police brutality.

Buckels adds:

"It is such situations that sadistic individuals may exploit for personal pleasure. Denying the dark side of personality will not help when managing people in these contexts."

Not sure what this 'conclusion' means exactly by 'denying' some people's intentions. It does seem to say something about the capacity for reform. Maybe matchmaker needs to start taking into account a hidden 'sociopath' score assigned to sadistic summoners as a means to identify those bad apples, and 'prisoner island' their asses...

just a thought.