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Internet troll personality study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism.
Climate desk? That makes no sense.
The article itself costs money of course.
Trolls just want to have fun
I personally know at least one person who admitted that yes they troll, they love to troll, and they are not at all who they represent as on the internet. So I'm not sure how much I believe the conclusions the article reached, and I can't investigate further without shelling out some money.
Disclaimer: Obviously, there's a huge difference between "equal but opposite," those on the other side of the aisle who holds their truths just as fiercely as I hold mine, and actual trolls.
Climate desk? That makes no sense.
The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba and two colleagues, sought to directly investigate whether people who engage in trolling are characterized by personality traits that fall in the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others).
It is hard to underplay the results: The study found correlations, sometimes quite significant, between these traits and trolling behavior. Whats more, it also found a relationship between all Dark Tetrad traits (except for narcissism) and the overall time that an individual spent, per day, commenting on the Internet.
In the study, trolls were identified in a variety of ways. One was by simply asking survey participants what they enjoyed doing most when on online comment sites, offering five options: debating issues that are important to you, chatting with others, making new friends, trolling others, and other. Heres how different responses about these Internet commenting preferences matched up with responses to questions designed to identify Dark Tetrad traits:
The article itself costs money of course.
Trolls just want to have fun
I personally know at least one person who admitted that yes they troll, they love to troll, and they are not at all who they represent as on the internet. So I'm not sure how much I believe the conclusions the article reached, and I can't investigate further without shelling out some money.
Disclaimer: Obviously, there's a huge difference between "equal but opposite," those on the other side of the aisle who holds their truths just as fiercely as I hold mine, and actual trolls.