Trolls Just Want to Have Fun

[Mercules]

based on this a lot of yall are some sadistic fucks... lol @ mean personality score

On February 8th, 2014, University of Manitoba’s Erin Buckels and two of her colleagues published a psychology paper[15] on the personalities of trolls on the Internet. According to Slate’s summary[17] of the paper, Buckels tried to investigate whether people who are prone to engage in trolling can be characterized by certain personality traits that woud fall in what the researchers refer to as the “Dark Tetrad”: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others). According to the paper, their study found significant correlations between exhibition of sadistic traits and trolling behavior.