The old Twitter joke about laser-eyed Bitcoin maxis being \u201cpsychopaths\u201d may be more than just a meme.<\/p>\n
Yet another peer-reviewed study has found that crypto holders are more likely to exhibit \u201cdark tetrad\u201d personality characteristics than the general population, among other quirks.<\/p>\n
Published July 3, researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Miami polled 2001 American adults in 2022 to assess the \u201cpolitical, psychological, and social correlates of cryptocurrency ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the abstract<\/a>, roughly 30% of those polled owned some form of cryptocurrency. This group was more associated with \u201cbelief in conspiracy theories,\u201d alongside dark tetrad characteristics including \u201cnarcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe variables that most strongly predict cryptocurrency ownership are being male, relying on alternative\/fringe social media as one\u2019s primary news source, argumentativeness, and an aversion to authoritarianism,\u201d the study added.<\/p>\n The research paper went mostly unnoticed until it was shared online by Johns Hopkins Economics Professor Steve Hanke \u2013 a notorious Bitcoin critic \u2013 earlier this week. \u201cCrypto holders display lower levels of analytic and scientific thinking and are likelier to exhibit psychopathy,\u201d he told followers<\/a> while sharing the study.<\/p>\n The study\u2019s findings mimic those of scientists at Queensland University of Technology in 2022, which surveyed<\/a> over 500 people and found that both psychopathy and sadism were associated with the experience of crypto FOMO.<\/p>\n The New York Post shared these findings in an article<\/a> titled \u201cBitcoin fans are psychopaths who don\u2019t care about anyone,\u201d which went viral online and became a long-standing meme among Bitcoin holders.<\/p>\n With another study backing the claim, some poked fun at the refreshed label. \u201cFortunately, I lost all of my bitcoin in a boating accident,\u201d tweeted podcast host Zuby on Friday. \u201cWouldn\u2019t want anybody to think I\u2019m a psychopath.\u201d<\/p>\n The paper identified other personality attributes associated with Bitcoiners, including a \u201cneed for chaos,\u201d dogmatism, victimhood mentality, and psychological reactance. They were also found more likely to value goals related to independent success and achievement rather than communal goals directed at helping others.<\/p>\n However, there were more positive findings for crypto owners as well.<\/p>\n \u201cCryptocurrency owners are largely more educated, have a higher income, and are more religious than those who have never owned cryptocurrency,\u201d the study found.<\/p>\n The post It Happened Again: Crypto Holders Are More Likely to Be Psychopaths, Study Finds<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The old Twitter joke about laser-eyed Bitcoin maxis being \u201cpsychopaths\u201d may be more than just a meme. Yet another peer-reviewed study has found that crypto holders are more likely to exhibit \u201cdark tetrad\u201d personality characteristics than the general population, among other quirks. Are Bitcoin Holders Really Psychos? Published July 3, researchers from the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Crypto Owners Are Wealthy And Educated<\/h2>\n