Troll-lördag: Trolls just want to have fun

Var tvungen att slå upp klassificeringarna, som jag här stolt och grandiost delar med mig av.

Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and a lack of empathy.

Machiavellianism is characterized by manipulation and exploitation of others, a cynical disregard for morality, and a focus on self-interest and deception.

The word has a similar use in modern psychology where it describes one of the dark triad personalities, characterised by a duplicitous interpersonal style associated with cynical beliefs and pragmatic morality.

Psychopathy is characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, impulsivity, selfishness, callousness, and remorselessness.

Och vicarious betyder ungefär "by proxy". Så en sådan sadist straffar osjälviskt någon som borde straffas.

Man kan nog hitta lite av varje av detta i kommentarerna här.

Machiavellianism. The word has a similar use in modern psychology where it describes one of the dark triad personalities, characterised by a duplicitous interpersonal style associated with cynical beliefs and pragmatic morality.[

Den här kommentaren har tagits bort av skribenten.

Hehe, den verkar ju jättevetenskaplig.
Indelningen i sadist, narcissist osv baseras visst på ett svarsformulär, så om det inte hade stämt överens med frågeställarens redan beslutade studieresultat hade det var sensationellt.

Det låter som Trollen Schämmerlisterna!
Alla som inte håller med och är smartare blir benämnda Troll. Samtidigt har de en mängd påhittade troll hos sig själva som spelar bakom både kvinnliga och manliga signaturer.
Ni vet de där tragiska manliga jättebebisarna som gråter för att få medlidande. De har inte insett att mamma inte längre finns där ute i samhället och bakar bullar till dem.

De ingenjörsutbildade 45-åringarna ägnar hela dagarna åt att argt och avundsamt snegla mot kvinnor omkring dem, som de inbillar sig fått allt gratis till sig. Samtidigt som de anser att kvinnor istället bör hålla sig hemma, vara tysta och föda en massa barn.

Om vi alla lite då och då anklagar varandra för att vara troll enligt ovanstående psykopatklassning blir vi nog lite ohälsosamt misstänksamma mot varandra.

Det är en fin balans mellan hetska känslor, givande diskussioner och ryggdunk.

Från artikelns metoddel:

3.1.1. Participants and procedure
Two large samples were collected online. The first consisted of 188 Canadian psychology students (55% female; M age = 21.15, SD = 3.63) who completed the questionnaires for extra course cred- it points. The second consisted of 609 United States residents (43% female; M age = 35.04, SD = 12.98) recruited on Amazon’s Mechan- ical Turk website (MTurk; http://www.mturk.com). The latter par- ticipants received $0.50 each for their time. Although all participants completed the dark personality measures and the short trolling scale, only a subset of MTurk participants (N = 207; 52% female; M age = 36.1, SD = 13.4) completed the questionnaire on commenting behavior, and only the student sample completed the Big Five Inventory.
3.1.2. Measures
The 44-item Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999) was used to assess extraversion (a = .83), agreeableness (a = .79), con- scientiousness (a=.81), neuroticism (a=.78), and openness to experience (a = .80).
The 27-item Short Dark Triad scale (Jones & Paulhus, in press) assessed narcissism (a = .75), Machiavellianism (a = .80), and sub- clinical psychopathy (a = .79). To assess sadistic personality, we used the 18-item Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tenden- cies (CAST; Buckels & Paulhus, 2013). The CAST item set succeeds the VAST used in Study 1, boasting expanded content coverage and improved reliabilities. The CAST assesses three distinct varie- ties of sadistic tendencies: direct physical sadism (e.g., ‘‘I enjoy physically hurting people’’; five items, a = .80), direct verbal sadism (e.g., ‘‘I enjoy making jokes at the expense of others’’; six items, a = .81), and vicarious sadism (e.g., ‘‘I enjoy playing the villain in games and torturing other characters’’; seven items, a = .81). Items
were rated on 5-point scales ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).3 We computed a composite for direct sadism as the mean of the 11 physical and verbal items (a = .86). Coefficient al- pha for CAST total scores was .89.
The section on Internet use asked participants, ‘‘How many hours per day do you spend on the Internet?’’ Participants addition- ally responded to a yes/no question, ‘‘Do you post comments on websites (e.g., YouTube, news sites, forums, etc.)? (even occasion- ally?)’’. Those who answered ‘‘yes’’ (i.e., the commenters) were asked to provide additional information about their posting behav- ior: ‘‘How many hours per day do you spend posting comments on websites (e.g., YouTube, news sites, forums, etc.)?’’ We regressed commenting hours on overall Internet hours and saved the residual scores to create a second index of commenting frequency when controlling for overall Internet use. Finally, commenters rated their enjoyment of each activity used in Study 1 (debating, chatting, trolling, and making friends) on scales from 1 (not at all enjoyable) to 7 (very enjoyable).
We also included four items relevant to trolling that were inter- spersed in the other measures: ‘‘I have sent people to shock websites for the lulz’’, ‘‘I like to troll people in forums or the comments section of websites’’, ‘‘I enjoy griefing other players in multiplayer games’’, and ‘‘The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to cor- rupt’’,4 rated on 5-point scales from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The first three items addressed trolling experience and enjoying various forms of trolling, while the last item addressed identification with trolling and Internet subcultures. Mean responses to these four items (a = .82) formed the composite score labeled, Global Assessment of Internet Trolling (GAIT).