Trolls just want to have fun

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-102

  Buckels, Erin E ^a   Trapnell, Paul D ^b   Paulhus, Delroy L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisocial Internet behavior; Cyber trolls; Dark Tetrad; Dark Triad; Personality; Sadism; Trolling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901285979     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.016     Document Type: Article

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