Psychologists identified the kind of emotional intelligence that makes internet trolls so mean

32  2017-11-02 by aolataoldotcom

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WTF is this lol

Yeah, like prostitutes shower after every client. They'd end up drying out the skin if they did that, it's a quick wet-wipe around the relevant areas and then back at it.

DAE Physicopath just like Rick Sanchez?

Eat a bag of shit, cuntface.

Go and blow your fuckin' dad.

Your shit just raped my ears.

Never heard nothing so bad.

36% men, 63% women, 1% other surveyed

Did they get an animal or something?

Anyway, I couldn't access the study beyond the abstract. But it seems like a pretty small sample coupled with an online questionnaire, which makes me sort of skeptical of the strength of the correlation. I'd doubt the average online troll is really significantly more psychopathic than the average person. I don't doubt most of them are male, though.

probably a child

or a mayo

Probably someone who messed up the "about me" section but they were desperate for data points so they included it anyway.

The “trolls” in the study scored higher than average on two traits: psychopathy and cognitive empathy.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand trolling online. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of cognitive empathy most of the insults will go over a lolcow's head. There’s also the troll's psychpathic outlook, which is deftly woven into our characterization- our personal philosophy draws heavily from gay erotic literature, for instance. /r/Drama can understand this stuff; they have the intellectual depravity to truly appreciate the depths of these insults, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike online trolls truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humor in a troll's existential catchphrase “Keep Yourself Safe,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Cobain’s Seattle epic, Shotguns and Foreheads. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those bussyblasted faggot's jimmies rustling in frustration as the online trolls’s autistic wit unfolds itself in their username mentions. What fools.. how I goad them. 😂

“Although some people think my posts/comments are offensive, I think they are funny.”

Imagining that you could post something funny on the internet and nobody would be offended by it is the real sign of mental illness.

Imagining that you could post something funny on the internet is a sign of severe delusion and crippling self-loathing.

Now we need a follow up study to figure out what kind of learning disability people suffer from that makes them get upset at internet comments.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is perplexed as to why psychologists think they're anything more than a pseudoscience.

Night made-up words, guys. Spend all night coming up with that terminology?

Psychologists are to psychiatrists what astrologists are to astronomers.

Some day, neuroscience will deliver us from this hell.

The Rick Sanchez effect.

that reads like wishful thinking turned into a published paper

Online questionnaire to evaluate internet trolls. That's gonna go well.