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Dark triad personality traits are positively associated with online antisocial behaviors, particularly cyberstalking, online trolling, and cyberbullying.
“Several researches reveal that dark triad’s personality traits seem to be positively associated with the problematic addition to the Internet [32] and with online antisocial behaviors, particularly cyberstalking [9,16], online trolling [10,33,34] and cyberbullying [35].”
From Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors: Portuguese Versions of Cyberstalking, Online Harassment, Flaming and Trolling Scales (2023) · cites this paper as [33]
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- Authors
- Buckels, E. E., Trapnell, P. D., & Paulhus, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Manitoba (CA)
- The University of Winnipeg (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Buckels, Erin E.
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-09
- Volume
- 67
- Pages
- 97-102
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1970593207
- Cited by
- 919
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 64 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 75 · 2023: 102 · 2022: 70 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 94 · 2019: 89 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 92 · 2016: 53 · 2015: 39 · 2014: 12
- FWCI
- 71.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
- Keywords
- trolling, sadism, Dark Tetrad, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, online commenting, personality traits, online behavior
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