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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:Timing is everything, I guess (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 22 2014, @05:17PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 22 2014, @05:17PM (#58742) Homepage

  I'm starting to think that posting these stories is a deliberate ploy to try to get all of the "troll" out of everybody's system here so that the other discussions are less tainted by emotional reactions and other shitposts.

  Which reminds me,

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