The "vandalism" of the Internet is actually highly sympathetic

ByGennaro Visciano

Attacking people on the Internet and spreading malice is "vandalism (Internet Troll) "IsPsychopath(Psychopathy)YasadismAlthough it has been announced so far that there is a trend in the past, the survey conducted by Australian researchers showed that vandalism has a certain "empathy" higher than the average.

Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy - ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917304270

Psychologists identified the kind of emotional intelligence that making internet trolls so mean - Quartz
https://qz.com/1021205/psychologists-identified-the-kind-of-emotional-intelligence-that-makes-internet-trolls-so-mean/


Researchers at Ballarat University in Australia investigated various character trends of 415 men and women and behavior that tends to be vandalous online with online questionnaires. Particularly focused on researchers is the particular nature that is vandalous, such as Internet users' social skills, psychopathology, sadism, emotional empathy, empathy with cognitive empathy. Emotional empathy is an empathy of 'empathy' that projects itself and makes you feel the same as your opponent, cognitive empathy is a situation in which you are looking at the state of the other party in a situation different from yourselfTo measureI will say. In other words, if the emotional empathy is high, you will experience the opponent's emotions internally and if you have high cognitive empathy, you will "understand" the feelings of others. And, as a result of the investigation, the vandalism on the Internet was that the scores of the two properties "cognitive empathy" and "psychopathology" are higher than the average, and the emotional sympathy is low.

"Empathy" is high at first sight seems to have a high tendency to sympathize for others, but researchers say "Even if they show empathy, as long as there is a tendency of psychopathology, In a way they do sneaky behaviors against others. " Such people objectively "understand" the situation that the partner is depressed with cognitive empathy, but since the emotional empathy is lacking, it is possible to attack the victim without internalizing the emotional experience of the victim We do. In the survey, whether or not it has the property of psychopathy was measured by a method of asking whether or not to agree with sentences such as "repetition must be done promptly and sneakily".

"People with a high tendency to psychopaths use" empathy "ability as a strategy to recognize and predict victims are suffering, while they do not experience the negative feeling the victim feels "The researchers wrote. Researchers say that people with a high tendency to psychopathology are often motivated by seeking thrills and acting impulsively, so "causing great disruption on the Internet" tends to be motivated. Also, as in previous studies, it was noted as a result of this research that "people with a high tendency to sadism" and "men" are prone to vandalism.

ByMarco Antonio Islas Cruz

Personality and Individual DifferencesThis research, which was announced at the end of this year, has not announced how to stop vandalism behavior. However, as we continue our research on psychopathological tendency / cognitive empathy and linkage of vandalism behavior, understanding of personality tendency as to why behavior like vandalism is caused will deepen and we will act in vandalism It is thought that there is a possibility that a braking can be attached.