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Study: Internet Trolls are the "Prototypical Everyday Sadists"

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:12PM   
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

• Re:The takeaway is (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:51PM

  by c0lo (156) on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:51PM (#58691) Journal

  its findings suggest trolls may be breeding.

  No, I most strenuously deny it. I'm not because...

  I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
  Love's going to leave me
  
  I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirts
  So sexy it hurts

  --
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0

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