{"title":"Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others","authors":"Jiaxu Tian, Mengyuan Zhu, Xiaoxiao Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104470","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Internet Trolling refers to a behavior pattern in which individuals deliberately disrupt normal network communication, provoking other network users’ negative emotional reactions. Most previous researches focused on the correlation between sadism and Internet Trolling, but did not explore the impact of environmental factors on the two. Thus, Study 1 explored the causal relationships among sadism, Internet anonymity and Internet Trolling. And based on this, the intrinsic motivation of sadistic Internet Trolling was further identified. Study 2 explored the role of hurting others’ pleasure in the relationship between sadism and Internet Trolling through three sub-studies (2a, 2b, and 2c). The results suggest that high sadism takes Internet Trolling in anonymous scenarios, in order to feel more pleasure from the negative emotional reactions of other network users.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Research in Personality","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000187","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Internet Trolling refers to a behavior pattern in which individuals deliberately disrupt normal network communication, provoking other network users’ negative emotional reactions. Most previous researches focused on the correlation between sadism and Internet Trolling, but did not explore the impact of environmental factors on the two. Thus, Study 1 explored the causal relationships among sadism, Internet anonymity and Internet Trolling. And based on this, the intrinsic motivation of sadistic Internet Trolling was further identified. Study 2 explored the role of hurting others’ pleasure in the relationship between sadism and Internet Trolling through three sub-studies (2a, 2b, and 2c). The results suggest that high sadism takes Internet Trolling in anonymous scenarios, in order to feel more pleasure from the negative emotional reactions of other network users.
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Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.
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