2023/12/14 by Darja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek, Jonathan Francis Roscoe +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anger #Contempt #Criminology #Disgust #Grievance #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection #Law #Literature #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Narrative #Paranoia #Political science #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Remorse #Social psychology
paper · pdf · doi:10.31234/osf.io/9wpre
openalex publication_date 2023/12/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
The mainstreaming of conspiracy narratives has been associated with a rise in violent offline harms, from harassment, vandalism of communications infrastructure, assault, and in its most extreme form, terrorist attacks. Group-level emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust have been proposed as a pathway to legitimizing violence. Here, we examine expressions of anger, contempt, and disgust as well as violence, threat, hate, planning, grievance, and paranoia within various conspiracy narratives on Parler. We found significant differences between conspiracy narratives for all measures and narratives associated with higher levels of offline violence showing greater levels of expression.