{"id":1064,"date":"2017-03-06T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:38:37","slug":"research-finds-a-majority-endorsing-revenge-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/03\/06\/research-finds-a-majority-endorsing-revenge-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Research finds a majority endorsing revenge porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research by psychologists has found that a majority of people would endorse the use of revenge porn and that those who actually post it have a distinct personality profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although only 29% of participants in the study reported a likelihood to engage in revenge porn activity, 99% of people expressed at least some approval (e.g. did not feel remorse) of revenge porn being posted online when presented with a scenario about a partner walking out on them. The researchers also found that 87% of participants expressed at least some excitement or amusement with revenge porn.<\/p>\n<p>Revenge porn is the act of sharing intimate, sexually graphic images and\/or videos of another person onto public online platforms, such as Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/pinaa\/\"> Dr Afroditi Pina<\/a> at the School of Psychology, established for the first time that there is a link between revenge porn proclivity and specific psychological characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/12758\/research-finds-a-majority-endorsing-revenge-porn\">Kent News Centre pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by psychologists has found that a majority of people would endorse the use of revenge porn and that those who actually post it have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/03\/06\/research-finds-a-majority-endorsing-revenge-porn\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49779,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140633,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}