Lookscel
Better to be an incel than a cuck ツ
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Feminist Intervention On the Incels.Co Online Forum
The Internet offers an anonymous platform for the dissemination of news, videos, ideas, opinions, and most impactfully hate. The online community that this study will focus on is the involuntary celibate (incel) community. A community that bonds over their hatred, misogyny, and incitement of...
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What caught my eye is this
White men aged 18-55, who are members of the Incels.Co forum will be recruited to participate in the between groups experimental design. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental condition (a feminist intervention folded into a chatroom post about the pay gap between male and female athletes) or the control condition (a chatroom about what is the best refrigerator to buy). Participants will then complete questionnaires that measure their aggression, attitudes towards violence, and misogyny. It is predicted that those in the experimental condition will have significantly reduced scores on aggression, attitudes towards violence, and misogyny compared to the control condition. The research findings will have important implications on how to reduce violent attitudes and behaviors amongst members of radicalized online communities.
So is some sort of recruitment going on here? Is this real? Sounds fake tbh