Psychopathy

• Study - online hate is closely linked to psychopathy. [1]

'One month after the Olympics ended, the researchers gave the Dark Triad questionnaire to participants. The Dark Triad is narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. Narcissism is a personality disorder where there is a “persistent pattern of grandiosity, fantasies of unlimited power or importance, and the need for admiration or special treatment,” according to a paper published in The Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Psychopathy is defined as a “neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior,” according to a paper in the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. Machiavellianism is a “personality trait characterized by interpersonal manipulation and associated with specific patterns of emotional and social cognition skills,” according to a paper in Frontiers in Psychology.'