{"id":850387,"date":"2024-08-31T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=850387"},"modified":"2024-08-31T08:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T03:05:36","slug":"crypto-owners-more-likely-to-have-psychopathic-traits-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/31\/crypto-owners-more-likely-to-have-psychopathic-traits-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Owners More Likely to Have Psychopathic Traits, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; If you\u2019ve ever suspected that your crypto-obsessed friend might be a psychopath, you may be on to something. <\/p>\n<p>Digital-asset holders tend to exhibit higher levels of \u201cdark\u201d personality traits such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism, according to a recent academic paper by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Miami published in the journal PLOS One. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results presented here suggest that cryptocurrency ownership is associated with several nonnormative and arguably maladaptive characteristics,\u201d the report said, adding that \u201cindividuals who had purchased crypto were, on average, more likely to believe conspiracy theories, support extremist groups, and share populist sentiments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; If you\u2019ve ever suspected that your crypto-obsessed friend might be a psychopath, you may be on to something. Digital-asset holders tend to exhibit higher levels of \u201cdark\u201d personality traits such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism, according to a recent academic paper by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Miami published in the journal PLOS One. \u201cThe results presented here suggest that cryptocurrency ownership is associated with several nonnormative and arguably maladaptive characteristics,\u201d the report said, adding that \u201cindividuals who had purchased crypto were, on average, more likely to believe conspiracy theories, support extremist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}