通过分析1.2万+受害者故事，揭示阴谋论激进化对亲友造成的不同情感伤害。
Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Mapping the Relational Harms of QAnon Radicalization
- 从12747个真实故事中提炼出6类激进化人格特征
- 发现不同人格类型对应特定情绪创伤：愤怒、厌恶、恐惧、悲伤
- 首次用计算方法建立激进者人格与亲友心理伤害的关联
针对阴谋论研究长期聚焦信徒行为而忽视其亲友受害的空白，本文分析了来自 r/QAnonCasualties（一个支持受困于阴谋论亲友者的在线社区）的12747个个人叙事。设计计算管道提取细粒度主题特征，并聚类为六种具凝聚力的激进化人格类型。通过大语言模型辅助的情绪检测与回归建模，将这些人格类型与叙述者报告的情感负担相联系。结果显示，将激进化视为有意识意识形态选择的个体，其亲友更易产生愤怒与厌恶；而表现出个人与认知崩溃特征的类型，则关联着恐惧与悲伤。本研究构建了一个基于实证数据的计算框架，用于理解激进化的社交关系性伤害，为探索其更广泛社会后果开辟新路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large-scale computational research on conspiracy theories has focused exclusively on believers' online behavior, leaving the harm experienced by those closest to them under-examined. This paper bridges this gap by analyzing 12747 stories from r/QAnonCasualties, an online support group for people who have ``lost'' someone to conspiracy beliefs. We design a computational pipeline to extract fine-grained thematic traits from personal narratives and cluster them into six coherent radicalization personas, which we then link to the emotional toll reported by narrators via LLM-assisted emotion detection and regression modeling. We find that personas are meaningful predictors of specific emotional harms: radicalization perceived as a deliberate ideological choice is associated with anger and disgust, while personas marked by personal and cognitive collapse correspond to fear and sadness. This work provides an empirically grounded computational framework for understanding the relational harms of radicalization, opening new avenues for research into its wider social consequences.
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