An exploration of the motivations of catfish perpetrators and the emotions and feelings expressed by catfish victims using automated linguistic analysis and thematic analysis

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• What: The study reported in this Article explored the motivations for catfish perpetrators and the impacts on those who had been catfished in terms of the emotions and feelings expressed by victims. was collected using the crowd-sourced question and answer website Quora and analysis was conducted on a pre-existing corpus of which contained participant`s answers to questions on catfishing. The most developed area of catfishing research focusses on biographical factors and psychological traits as predictors of catfish perpetration and catfish victims. There were 13 individual texts used for the analysis of motivations and 48 . . .
  

   

  

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