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Shocker! Online Trolls Are Sadistic Psychopaths - Here's The Proof

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"The YouTube comment section is known as a special circle of hell—and that might be because the people leaving provocative comments are literally sadists and psychopaths, a new study titled "Trolls just want to have fun" has discovered.

Canadian psychologists Erin Buckels, Paul Trapnell, and Delroy Paulhus set up a survey of personality inventories matched with "Internet commenting styles"—in other words, they attempted to psychoanalyze commenters, which should be cause for a Nobel prize (and hazard pay) in itself. What came from the study will likely surprise no one: people who like to troll are also likely to show signs of "sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism."

Those three character flaws make up the ominous "Dark Tetrad of personality.""* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Kyle Chayka / Time:
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