No content is innocuous enough to escape internet hate completely. Baking tutorials, compilations of people passing the bar exam, and even two herpetologists soberly discussing the evolution of rain frogs are all susceptible to the very best of indecent words.
A new study from the Journal Frontiers in Psychology attempts to locate the driving force behind the online rage. According to the data, psychosis plays a major role (perhaps unsurprisingly).
“The main aim of the present study is to identify the psychological predictors of posting hate comments online. Based on the initial literature review, we decided to focus on the following traits: Dark Triad (i.e., Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism), level of experienced frustration, level of experienced envy, and satisfaction with life.”
The participating subjects were reviewed and approved by the Ethical Review Board of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław.
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The authors of the new paper derived their findings from online comments posted by Facebook users aimed at athletes who participated in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
Forty-six of the 94 users involved in the study submitted comments that could be reasonably defined as hateful; gems like “she discredits our country” and “representing our country while being so ugly should be banned.”.
Although nearly 50% of disparaging comments were posted by female respondents, elements of the dark triad of personality traits, narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy, were suspected to link the commonalities and differences of online haters compared to trolls and more generic forms of cyberbullying more substantively.
In this context, haters were distinguished as individuals who ..
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