A new study published in the journal Biological Psychology presents evidence suggesting that bullies like inflicting pain and even watching others in pain.
To test this theory, they showed footage of pain to “unusually aggressive 16 to 18-year-old males” and a group of normal ones.
Obviously, they figured out which ones were super aggressive by putting all of them in a giant race, realizing the ones caring baseball bats were their experiment group.
The “normal” males’ pleasure brain nubs did not light up when showed footage of pain, while the aggressive ones furiously masturbated. When the bullies were angered because the slide show was done, the researches put them in a room with kittens to calm them down.
Surprisingly, no kittens were hurt, although one was photographed without permission and put into a YouTube video to the soundtrack of Schindler’s List.