UK Study: You're a Psychopathic, Machiavellian, Narcissist
Reject outrageous so-called 'COVID-19 prevention measures'? You simply have a Dark Triad personality type.
New gem out of some United Kingdom based universities — proving once again that there are in fact ‘bad questions.’
Basically — if you don’t mindlessly fear COVID and don’t believe the peddled lies and disinformation emanating from the television …
You’re basically just a psychopathic, Machiavellian, unhinged narcissist.
“Trust us. We’ve studied ourselves. We’re altruistic.” — the authors of the study, probably.
What kind of ethical study removes the name of the University providing the Ethics Committee? Is this usual..? Asking because I don’t know the answer.
And what were the “manipulation check fails” that allowed them to strip out some submissions — but not others? Can’t find those either.
The entire study was conducted by using Amazon Mechanical Turk with a simply massive test pool of …263 people. All sourced online. Who knows if they were even answering truthfully. Doesn’t matter. The $cience on this is $ettled.
If you don’t know what it is — Amazon Mechanical Turk is a tool that lets any monkey with access to a credit card crowdsource & pay humans for their labor — for example to perform tasks, like answer surveys (I’m sure there’s no issue with the nature of the test subjects reliability. Nope..) or perform other repetitive, typically ‘low-skill’ tasks online.
Another .. more commonly understood .. working example of MTurk usage would be tasking the MTurk employees to look at images of fruit:
Here are 1000 images of fruit.
Draw a red square box around each individual banana in the 1000 images of fruit.
Do nothing with images that have no banana in the image, but add the filename to a list ‘here’
Upload the images to ‘this link’
If I were a monkey with a credit card — I might do this for the purposes of using that annotated data later on in a Machine Learning application. Reason being that you can ‘train’ an AI model to recognize a ‘banana’ based on the ‘red boxes’ drawn around them in ‘Step 2.’ The images that do not contain bananas are thrown out — and the ‘AI training’ does not use them to determine what a ‘banana’ looks like.
This is a fairly common usage of the tool.
It’s simply unfathomable that you might use this tool to survey a small labor pool to diagnose serious personality disorders in people you paid.
But anyway, this is what they found:
Data were collected in April 2021. Three hundred participants were recruited from Amazon MTurk and paid $1.50. Due to language proficiency, the survey was limited to participants from the United Kingdom (26 participants) or United States of America (237 participants). A final total of 263 (Mage = 34.43, SD = 11.29; women = 141; men = 118, non-binary = 4) participants were included in the data analyses after removing cases due to missing data or manipulation check fails. The ethnic profile of the cohort was: 192, White; 14, Mixed-race; 20, Asian; 24, Black; and 13 “other”.
The study consisted of a series of psychometric questionnaires that took approximately 15 min to complete. Ethical approval was provided by (removed) University's Ethics Committee.
Some gems inside:
Grandiose narcissists may think they are too important to adhere to restrictions, and anxiety and neuroticism might drive COVID-19 prevention behaviour in non-resilient and shameful vulnerable narcissists (Sękowski et al., 2021) who avoid criticism (van Schie et al., 2021).
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Another consideration motivating disengagement with COVID prevention behaviour are conspiracy theories, which are linked to the DT (Jolley et al., 2019; March & Springer, 2019). Primary psychopathic individuals believe in conspiracy theories because they assume others to be as manipulative as they are (Douglas & Sutton, 2011). Conspiracy beliefs are negatively related to COVID-19 prevention behaviour (Simione et al., 2021), and primary psychopathy and narcissism are linked to COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs (Gligorić et al., 2021; Hughes & Machan, 2021). Thus, belief in conspiracy theories is a known risk factor for contravening COVID-19 prevention behaviour for high dark traits individuals.
The current study will compare primary psychopathy, grandiose narcissism, and vulnerable DT traits in relation to factors that may influence COVID-19 prevention behaviour. It is expected that because primary psychopathy and grandiose narcissism are associated with reduced fear, low empathy, and belief in conspiracy theories, they will predict decreased fear and perceived severity of COVID-19, reduced altruism, and increased belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, which contribute to decreased COVID-19 prevention behaviour.
Again … They have clinically diagnosed people they have paid themselves, out of their own pockets to perform simple tasks on the internet. And by proxy, they’ve diagnosed you too.
What if there was a concerted effort to over-exaggerate the severity of “COVID-19” so that everyone would hastily inject themselves with Mystery Kool-Aid? Not specifically saying there was…but what if that turns out to be the case?
Somehow the authors of this piece of industrial waste must believe they are the altruistic ones. Total, peak fever pitch insanity has been reached. They’re good people because they adhere to nonsensical and unscientific “COVID-19” prevention policies. You’re bad people because you don’t.
That is the barometer by which all good traits are measured…
Abstract:
Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism) are associated with nonadherence to COVID-19 prevention measures such as social distancing and wearing face masks, although the psychological mechanisms underpinning this relationship remain unclear. In contrast, high threat-sensitivity may motivate compliance, and maybe seen in relation to vulnerable dark traits (secondary psychopathy, vulnerable narcissism and borderline personality disorder). The relationship between vulnerable dark traits and COVID-19 prevention behaviour has not been examined. During April 2021, participants (n = 263) completed an online psychometric study assessing engagement with COVID-19 prevention behaviour, traditional DT traits (primary psychopathy; grandiose narcissism) and vulnerable DT traits. Potential indirect effects were fear of COVID-19, perceived coronavirus severity, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and altruism. Model of path analysis identified predictors of engagement in disease prevention behaviour. Primary psychopathy, grandiose narcissism, secondary psychopathy and BPD were associated with less COVID-19 prevention behaviour, with an indirect effect of reduced coronavirus severity. Grandiose narcissism and BPD were also motivated by COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and increased prevention behaviour when fear of COVID-19 was higher. No direct or indirect effects were observed for vulnerable narcissism. The current study is the first to elucidate psychological mechanisms linking vulnerable dark traits with COVID-19 prevention behaviour.
Psychological Traits of "COVID-19 prevention measure" adherents.
Negative self-image, external locus of control, low scale self-efficacy, minority mindset, as when a minor is adjudged incompetent to exercise control over one's affairs, and must be assigned a Guardian. Deficient executive attention and control, whereby attention is directed to high priority situational demands, with irrelevant information identified and inhibited. Deficiencies of inductive reasoning, whereby one progresses from specific pieces of data toward a general conclusion. Utilization of suboptimal thinking tools, such as the Availability Heuristic, whereby the easy availability of media information leads to mental encoding-based availability biases. This in turn leads to biased memory retrieval. The Anchoring Heuristic, whereby one's initial opinion makes us overly biased toward it. Emotional, intuitive, unconscious decision making rather than conscious, deliberate consideration of evidence. It is quite obvious that the possessor of these dark psychological traits must be involuntarily hospitalized and forcibly medicated.
I knew it... there’s something really wrong with me 🤣🤣🤣🤣 hilarious!!