Over the past several years, an online community of self-described “incels,” referring to involuntary celibates, has emerged and gained increased public attention. Central to the guiding incel ideology and master narrative are violent misogynistic beliefs and an attitude of entitlement, based on male gender and social positioning, with respect to obtaining desired and often illusory sexual experiences. While violence and hate speech within the incel community are both common, there exists a notable subset of incels who have been willing to act on those violent beliefs through the commission of acts of multiple murder. This study explores the demographic, cognitive, and other characteristics of seven self-identified incels who have attempted and/or successfully completed homicide. The findings suggest that although self-perceptions tend to reflect either grandiosity or self-deprecation, homicidal incels share similar demographic characteristics and dense common clusters of neutralization techniques, cognitive distortions, and criminal thinking errors.

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想要性和杀戮：检查暴力“非自愿独身者”的人口统计学和认知特征

在过去几年中，出现了一个自称为“incels”的在线社区，指的是非自愿的独身者，并引起了越来越多的公众关注。指导性的 incel 意识形态和主要叙事的核心是暴力的厌恶女性的信仰和权利态度，基于男性性别和社会定位，关于获得想要的和通常是虚幻的性体验。虽然 incel 社区中的暴力和仇恨言论都很常见，但仍有一部分 incels 愿意通过实​​施多项谋杀行为来对这些暴力信仰采取行动。本研究探讨了 7 名曾试图和/或成功完成杀人的自我认定的 incels 的人口统计学、认知和其他特征。