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"individuals who had purchased crypto were, on average, more likely to believe conspiracy theories, support extremist groups, and share populist sentiments.”
Conspiracy, extremist, populist = the dark triad of politics and culture
The study, which surveyed 2,001 American adults, noted that crypto owners tend to score higher on measures of need for chaos, paranoia, schizotypal attributes, dogmatism, victimhood mentality, and psychological reactance, which is a clinical term for motivations triggered by feelings that personal freedoms have been lost. Just under 30% of survey respondents said they own, or have owned, crypto.
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The strongest predictors of whether someone owns cryptocurrency include variables such as being male, having a victimhood mindset, or relying on fringe social-media sources for news, the researchers wrote.
Fringe is code for not MSM
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