[M] self-victimhood is a personality type, says new research

[RS Wood]

From the «it's not your fault though» department:
Title: Self-Victimhood is a Personality Type, Researchers Find
Author: martyb
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:42:00 -0500
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/12/13/1855204&from=rss

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Self-Victimhood Is A Personality Type, Researchers Find[1]:

[...] A new paper[2] in the scientific journal Personality and Individual
Differences posits a Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV), an
archetype defined by several truly toxic traits: a pathological need for
recognition, a difficulty empathizing with others, feelings of moral
superiority, and, importantly, a thirst for vengeance.

[...] In one of this paper's experiments, for instance, a computer split a
pot of money between itself and a human participant; this person was led to
believe the computer was also a human participant. Sometimes the pot was
split unevenly, and the human participant was given a chance to take
vengeance by reducing the computer's pot without enriching his own.
Researchers discovered that participants classified as having higher TIV
scores were "strongly associated with behavioral revenge" in this scenario.

TIV was also "associated with an increased experience of negative emotions,
and entitlement to immoral behavior."

[...] Writing in Scientific American, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman notes[3]
that "the researchers do not equate experiencing trauma and victimization
with possessing the victimhood mindset. They point out that a victimhood
mindset can develop without experiencing severe trauma or victimization."

Kaufman continues:

Read more of this story[4] at SoylentNews.

Links:
[1]: https://reason.com/2020/12/10/tendency-for-interpersonal-victimhood-trauma-research-study-trigger/ (link)
[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886920303238 (link)
[3]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unraveling-the-mindset-of-victimhood/ (link)
[4]: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/12/13/1855204&from=rss (link)


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