You might think that trolling on the internet was the preserve of a small but obvious minority of people who have "pathological" personality types. However, one study suggests that, given the right circumstances, there is a troll in all of us. Watch this video for more information on this study.
References: Cheng, J., Bernstein, M., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., & Leskovec, J. (2017, February). Anyone can become a troll: Causes of trolling behavior in online discussions. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work and social computing (pp. 1217-1230).
Interesting supplementary article for anyone interested in learning more about the relationship between 'The Dark Tetrad' of personality traits and trolling.
Volkmer, S. A., Gaube, S., Raue, M., & Lermer, E. (2023). Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor. Plos one, 18(3), e0280271.
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