Masochism in the laboratory rat: An experimental demonstration

An Experimental Laboratory Investigation

This study experimentally tested whether a stressor characterized by social-evaluative threat (SET), a context in which the self can be judged negatively by others, would elicit increases in proinflammatory cytokine activity and alter the regulation of this response. This hypothesis was derived in part from research on immunological responses to social threat in nonhuman animals. Healthy female...

TinyTOCS as an Experimental Laboratory

TinyTOCS has a unique opportunity to experiment with changes to the academic publishing model due to its high profile and high-quality student PC. However, TinyTOCS reiterates many of the shortcomings of the traditional publishing model [2], including a multi-month long review cycle, a closed and opaque peer-review process, and arbitrary content limitations. Instead, we argue that TinyTOCS shou...

Masochism in Modern Man

as an animal that seeks pleasure and avoids pain. In this book Dr. Reik stresses the social type of masochism which tends to dominate not only the life of individuals but also social groups. His studies of the perverseness of the individual and of the behaviour of national groups forces him to the conclusion that, far from being a creature that seeks pleasure and avoids pain, man is indubitably...

Moral masochism

Masochism, Submission, Surrender1—Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender

SURRENDER, IN STRIKING CONTRAST TO masochism, is a word that is seldom encountered in the psychoanalytic literature, and even then it often bears an ambiguous meaning. My goal in this paper is to give the term a certain clarity of definition and to study its relation to submission and masochism, which I regard as antitheses to surrender. In order to span the full compass of the meaning I give t...