Studies reveal that "vandalism" that appears on the net is a psychopathic sadist with narcissists

ByTeun van den Neste

"Internet · Troll (Vandalism) "Refers to a user who can communicate with multiple people, such as bulletin boards, comment fields, chat, etc., leaving comments such as interrupting the conversation or making people uncomfortable. Research has revealed that such "vandalism" is a narcissist, psychopath and sadistic personality owner.

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It is not an exaggeration to say that it will definitely appear in the comment section of the Internet, for example, "vandalism" is not necessarily responsive to other people's comments with a purpose, but lying for reasons that they just want a reaction from around Or lazy words are arranged.

"Is there something unique to those who do such vandalism?", Erin E. Buckels of Manitoba University, Paul D. Trapnell of Winnipeg University, Delroy L. Paulhus of the University of British Columbia Three people are investigating. In the survey, we conducted "personality survey" and "behavior survey when leaving comments on the Internet" for more than 1,200 subjects.

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Based on these data, the personality characteristics of people who prefer "vandalism" and "Dark ToturedThe result of examining the relevance of the following graph. With dark tetrad, there are many overlapping parts among personality traitsnarcissism(Self love, self-euphoria)Machiavellism(The idea that you do not choose a means for the purpose)Psychopathy(Psychopathology, psychopaths are referred to as psychopaths) to three,sadism(Craving motivation) is added to the character traits.

Five behavioral behavior revealed in "Behavior investigation when leaving comments on the Internet" are "No Commenter", "Debating Issues", "Chatting", "Trolling ) "And" Other ", it shows the relationship with the Internet user Dark Tetrud who likes these behaviors, with red being Machiavellism, green being narcissism, Orange by psychopathy, purple being direct sadism, Blue expresses personality traits such as compensating sadism. The numerical value expresses the strength of the correlation with personality traits, and there is a clear correlation between the person character who likes "vandalism" and the personality traits called dark tetrad, which prefer other actions It is obvious that it was numerically different from the user. Researchers on this result said that "vandalism" on the Internet is a typical sadist. "


According to research, vandalism and sadism are pleasing with the suffering of other people, he says, "The Internet is a great sadist's playground." Incidentally,Psychology TodayThe way to deal with "vandalism" that I recommend is "to ignore".