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Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy
Natalie Sest,Evita March +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explored and extended the personality profile of Internet trolls and found that men were more likely than women to engage in trolling, and higher levels of trait psychopathy and sadism predicted trolling behaviour.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2017-12-01. It has received 122 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Empathy & Psychopathy.read more
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The Dark Tetrad traits and problematic social media use: the mediating role of cyberbullying and cyberstalking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated direct and indirect associations of dark personality traits with problematic social media use via cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and cybertrolling, and found that cyberbullies and cyberstalkers are associated with sadism, psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.
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Internet trolling and everyday sadism: Parallel effects on pain perception and moral judgment.
TL;DR: Results confirm that online trolling is motivated (at least in part) by sadistic tendencies, and combined with effective rationalization mechanisms, sadistic pleasure can be consummated in such everyday behaviors as online trolling.
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Integrating Empathy and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
TL;DR: It is argued that real-life empathic goals encompass a broader range-including sometimes worsening targets' affect or contravening their wishes in order to improve their well-being-that can be productively integrated into the framework of interpersonal emotion regulation (IER).
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Psychopathy, sadism, empathy, and the motivation to cause harm: New evidence confirms malevolent nature of the Internet Troll
TL;DR: In this article, the utility of gender, primary psychopathy, sadism (direct and vicarious), affective empathy, cognitive empathy, negative social potency, and Vulnerable Dark Triad traits (i.e., secondary psychopath, vulnerable narcissism, and borderline personality traits) could predict additional variance.
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The relationship between the dark tetrad and a two-dimensional view of empathy.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the associations between the Dark Tetrad, the two-dimensional (cognitive vs affective) model of empathy, and the ability to recognize emotions.
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The empathy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences.
TL;DR: The EQ reveals both a sex difference in empathy in the general population and an empathy deficit in Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism adults, who are reported clinically to have difficulties in empathy.
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The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
Delroy L. Paulhus,Kevin Williams +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the Dark Triad of personality traits, namely Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy, in a sample of 245 students and concluded that they are overlapping but distinct constructs.
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Introducing the short Dark Triad (SD3): a brief measure of dark personality traits.
TL;DR: The Short Dark Triad (SD3) is developed and validated, a brief proxy measure that provides efficient, reliable, and valid measures of the DarkTriad of personalities.
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Trolls just want to have fun
TL;DR: In two online studies as mentioned in this paper, respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles, and strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures.
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