Not only Trolls are Trolling the Internet: A study on dark personality traits, online environment, and commentary styles

On the Internet, many commentary styles take place on various forums, and abuse is not uncommon. We investigated the personality traits related to individuals’ behaviors on Internet forum posting. The Dark Short Tetrad (SD4) were used to predict (N = 212) three types of commentary styles: Trolling (...

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Published in:	International Journal of Personality Psychology
Main Authors:	Anna M. Connysdotter Karlsson, Petri J. Kajonius
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Groningen Press 2020-12-01
Subjects:	personality dark tetrad internet behavior online environment
Online Access:	https://ijpp.rug.nl/article/view/37214

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