Guest Lecture: Cyber Aggression

Question 1

cyber aggression is associated with many negative outcomes (3)

Answer 1

• Worse academic performance
• Worse mental health (depression, anxiety)
  
  • PTSD, suicide → extreme consequences
• Loneliness

Question 2

how is it Different than face-to-face aggression

Answer 2

PUBLIC ->
- Public humiliation
- So the target can experience the harm over and over again
- It also gives the opportunity for others to pile on!

Question 3

Definition of Cyber Aggression

Answer 3

• No specific definition
  “Intentionally harmful, hurtful, or offending behaviours, such as the sending of rude, threatening, or offensive messages using electronic means

Question 4

why is it hard to study

Answer 4

• Field is new
• Psychologists and grad students use the internet different than the adolescents that are being studied
• “sending”
  
  • Aggression can be liking, or sharing negative things about others
• Doesn’t include **banter** which can be negative

Question 5

what is the main difference b/w cyber bullying and trolling

Answer 5

anonymity in trolling

Question 6

aims of Who let the trolls out? (her study)

Answer 6

• Try to capture archetypes of trolling
  
  • “Personality profiles”
• Address limitations in the operationalization of “trolling” in the literature
• This means we should attack the problem of defining what trolling is from multiple POVs

Question 7

wanted to capture:

Answer 7

Self-reported trolling
- Ask to tell if they do the behaviour

Subjective trolling
- Ask what does and doesn’t count as trolling

Objective trolling
- Catch them in the act → see if they will troll when given the opportunity

Question 8

MEASURES:

Answer 8

iTroll scale (Buckels et al., 2018)
- I consider myself to be a troll
- I identify with trolling culture
- My online personality is typical of a troll
- Trolls share my perspective in life

Who let the trolls out Subjective trolling: reddit posts
- Took posts from r/roastme
- Asked Ps to say if it counts as trolling to obtain definition and if they would do the same thing

Built chat-bot
Choose out of 3 respnose options:
1. positive
2. nuetral ‘
3. troll response

Question 9

found 3 archetypes

Answer 9

1. self aware
   - self-report
   - subjective
   - objective
2. in theory
   - self-report
   - subjective
3. secret
   - objective

Question 10

who had the highest scores in trolling ?

Answer 10

secret trolls

Question 11

limitations of her study

Answer 11

• We only recruited participants aged between 18–25 → results will apply for this group.
• How would our definition of trolling change if we recruited older participants?
• What about if we recruited younger participants?