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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: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:06AM (28 children)
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/07/26/explained-americas-fact-free-lockdown-hysteria/ [21stcenturywire.com]
It's a one hour video. If you can't, or won't, spend an hour watching, don't bother clicking, there's almost nothing to read on that page. Just an hour of some guy talking about why the lockdown is stupid.
Too long didn't watch version:
Life goes on. You better go on about your life, before it passes you by. Younger people shouldn't put their lives on hold indefinitely, based on some crazy hope that Grandma and Grandpa might live a little bit longer.
Of course, if you don't have a life, you're not losing anything by quarantining yourself in Mother's basement, right?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:19AM (1 child)
20th Century Boomer Wire
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @01:15PM
"20th Century Boomer Wire"
maybe, but the message is that the old folks don't feel they have a right to tell the young to stay home
His summary starts at minute 46.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:20PM (21 children)
Idiotic.
First, young people die of covid too.
Second, causing death, even if involuntary, is still homicide no matter the age of the victim. Recklessly spreading infection is still recklessly spreading infection, no matter if it's covid or HIV [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:32PM (18 children)
Yes. They're more likely to win the lottery though if they don't have a preexisting condition that compromises their immune system.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday July 26 2020, @01:00PM (17 children)
Millenials are not invincible [statnews.com]
Besides, the chance of being killed by a falling bullet [wikipedia.org] is even lower than winning the lottery, but it happens [telegraph.co.uk] and a rational human would refrain from celebratory gunfire in densely populated places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:50PM (11 children)
Millennials are not kids. None of them are below legal drinking age and most of them aren't even paying the below-25 insurance prices anymore.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:11PM (5 children)
Huh strange.
So you are capable of recognizing reality? The search for the cause of libertarian stupidity goes on.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:19PM (4 children)
Inability to digest bovine feces.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:31PM
Well stop swallowing it then ;D
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:34PM (2 children)
Based on this thread you're making a pretty good fist of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @05:54PM (1 child)
That's an unsettling mental image. The poor cow.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 27 2020, @09:52PM
Thank the next rancher you meet then. Sticking your hand up a cow is something you're just going to have to live with if you own more than a dozen.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:55PM (2 children)
Yeah, so let's infect them, motherfuckers, because they are millennials, no need for a better reason.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:02PM (1 child)
Millennials will laugh it off, maybe dry heave a couple times, then be fine.
You, Boomer, you will die and you will deserve to fucking die. You narcissistic motherfucking shit Boomer.
Kill the Boomers. All of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @06:05AM
Boomers want to die.
Let them die.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:10PM (1 child)
Careful moving those goal posts, the risk of damaging your back when lifting/moving weights increases with age.
Go read Runaway's comment that I replied to, does it strike you as advises for kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 27 2020, @01:24PM
You and I have very different ideas of what constitutes "young people" then. I don't consider anyone 25+ to be even arguably "young people". They're middle-aged (even if they recently often have Peter Pan syndrome and refuse to grow the fuck up), which they stay until around fifty or so and with any luck become old.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:41PM
stfu, you dumb fucking bitch. knowingly and purposefully transmitting an incurable disease by bodily fluid, is not even close to your slave ass catching an airborne contagion (you probably funded through your suck ass fed taxes, you stupid bitch) from god knows where.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:04PM
As far as I remember, people that knowingly transmitted HIV got off at trial
for some reason. Do you have a citation besides wikipedia?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Opportunist on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:51PM (2 children)
Thank you, a great example of the narcissistic, egoistical behaviour this story is about.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:35PM (1 child)
But, certainly not an example of the mass hysteria gripping the world today.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:07PM
Boomers belong in prison. Round up all you insane narcissistic pieces of shit at your entitled Boomer Hour and throw you in prison where you belong.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:05PM
Boomers belong in prison. Round up all you insane narcissistic pieces of shit at your entitled Boomer Hour and throw you in prison where you belong.