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New research has found that people with "dark" personality characteristics, such as psychopathy and narcissism, are less likely to comply with efforts to impede the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and more likely to stockpile goods such as food and toilet paper.
Two new studies, both published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, reinforce previous findings that the "Dark Triad" of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism is associated with ignoring preventative COVID-19 measures.
But the new research indicates that health beliefs and situational perceptions may play a more important role than personality traits alone.
Dark Enlightenment, or Dark Triads?
Journal References:
Bartlomiej Nowak, Pawel Brzoska, Jarosław Piotrowski, et al. Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs, Personality and Individual Differences (DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110232)
Marcin Zajenkowski, Peter K. Jonason, Maria Leniarska, et al. Who complies with the restrictions to reduce the spread of COVID-19?: Personality and perceptions of the COVID-19 situation [open], Personality and Individual Differences (DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110199)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:00PM (4 children)
Here are the factual data, not journalistic perversion.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex [cdc.gov]
See the Table 1, the actual numbers per age category.
For those "millenials", the chance to die of COVID (i.e. of pneumonia it causes) is roughly 1 per MILLION.
(15-24 years: 62 deaths per 42,970,800 population).
Thanks for playing, Mr. Propaganda Bot, but it's unlikely to get you a raise.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:33PM
I too am deeply butt hurt that C0lo is mental failwaving my internets with his informed opinions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:18PM
The stat you're trying to refute was hospitalization, not death.
In case you hadn't noticed, hospitalization is unpleasant and damned expensive. In the case of covid, recovery for someone sick enough to be hospitalized can be long and possibly incomplete.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Monday July 27 2020, @08:49AM (1 child)
Your data seems off.
Did you go and cherry pick from the cdc or find some trump political appointee data?
Why would the data be listed as 62 deaths per 43 million people?
Surely that is not a Covid-19 number. After all, worldwide, there have only been a little over 16.5 million reported cases of Covid-19. Only a little over 4 million in the US. And to top it off, that is the rate among those aged 15-24 years... Surely that narrow range is only a small portion of all covid cases. If I were to register a guess, those numbers are actual flu cases and deaths on an annual basis... not Covid 19.
Another way of looking at those numbers is that ratio is 10x the number of people infected with Covid-19 in the US. Based on those numbers, there are only 6 deaths in that age group... and surely the people who watch the news from places that don't blindly use the president's propaganda have heard about more than 6 deaths in that age groups... and again... that is assuming every case in the US is in that age group based on numbers.
A final point about the utter uselessness of your numbers in this situation... Another major symptom in Covid-19 cases is blood clots. In fact, that is one of the biggest problems of people that recover from Covid-19 after being hospitalized. Well, blood clots are the cause of Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Pulmonary Embolisms (among other problems as well depending on where the clots form.) Those 3 that I mentioned are all extremely serious and can all cause death if not treated quickly. Any death like this would be Covid related and not be considered pneumonia at all.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2020, @09:15AM
That is not my data, I'm just happy to see you!