You’re more likely to troll if you’re in a bad mood, study finds
February 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
The road to trolldom is paved with frustration, according to a study published as part of the 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing taking place later this month. A person is more likely to participate in abusive behavior or “trolling” based on their current mood and the context of the discussion they’re participating in.
Harassment and associated trolling have become the collateral damage of time spent socializing online. In 2014, Pew Research Center found that 70 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds online had been harassed. In a separate study that year, researchers found that people who troll demonstrated a strong link to personality traits of sadism, narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism….
