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Study: Internet Trolls are the "Prototypical Everyday Sadists"

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the Billy-Goats-Gruff dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Results suggests trolls aren't seeking praise or wanting to manipulate; other studies indicate they may breed more. While it's important to preface what is to follow with a reminder that correlation doth not causation make, a new study [Pay Walled, Abstract Available] has found seemingly clear ties between internet trolling and a person's likelihood of being predisposed to the "Dark Triad." [Pay Walled, Abstract Available] But more interestingly it finds that only one particular negative personality trait is stroked by trollish behavior and its findings suggest trolls may be breeding.

The paper's critical finding was that the Dark Triad of personality traits were often correlated, or in other words someone who was narcissistic would be more likely to be psychopathic, and so on, statistically speaking.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/02/12/online-trolls-are-just-everyday-sadists-according-to-new-paper/

http://www.dailytech.com/Study+Internet+Trolls+are+the+Prototypical+Everyday+Sadists/article36091.htm

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:23PM (#58685)

    ugh, can we please avoid paywalled articles

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by umafuckitt on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:59PM

    by umafuckitt (20) on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:59PM (#58695)

    Google is your friend [scottbarrykaufman.com]. Pro-tip: with research papers just search for the article title in quotes plus "pdf". It often does the trick.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @04:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @04:16PM (#58724)

      This helps for this article. Generally, the parent poster still has a point: The link to the freely available paper should have been in the submission instead of the link to the paywalled article.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by unauthorized on Sunday June 22 2014, @03:16PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Sunday June 22 2014, @03:16PM (#58709)

    Here is a link to the original paper and totally not a smartass reaction to the subject [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @05:46PM (#58754)

    Links to paywalled articles = (sadistically)baited hook?

    trolling is also a form of fishing so:

    trolling fisherman?
    trolling phisherman?
    fishing troll?
    phishing troll?
    ???

    With apologies to AnonTechie if none of this fits you but,,, might want to be careful with AnonTechie's image.

    Sounds silly coming from Anonymous Coward don't it?