Research: Cryptocurrency holders are more likely to have "dark" traits

2024-07-05 09:23:59
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ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, a research paper titled "The Political, Psychological, and Social Correlates of Cryptocurrency Ownership" has been published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal PLOS One. The authors of this paper are Shane Littrell from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, along with Casey Klofstad and Joseph E. Uscinski from the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami.

It states: "In 2022, we surveyed 2,001 American adults to examine the associations between cryptocurrency ownership and individual-level political, psychological, and social characteristics. We found that cryptocurrency owners are associated with beliefs in conspiracy theories, 'dark' personality traits (such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism, the 'dark tetrad'), and more frequent use of alternative and fringe social media platforms."

The authors added: "In a more comprehensive multivariable model, the variables that best predict cryptocurrency ownership are being male, reliance on alternative/fringe social media as a primary news source, being argumentative, and a disdain for authoritarianism."

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