Episode 62 - The Psychology of Trolling

Why do people troll other players in video games? Do they get something out of it or are they just "broken"? A lot of us like to think the latter, but some researchers are starting to investigate exactly why people troll in video games and in general.

Links:

https://twitter.com/christinelcookl
https://socialinteractionlab.com/
Audio Credits:

“Robot Motivation” by The Polish Ambassador, licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Hitman by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3880-hitman License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Children Laughing Sound by Mike Koenig http://soundbible.com/1848-Children-Laughing.html