Complete Story
04/30/2025
PCA Journal Spring 2025 Issue - Article 3 - Learning More About Incels by Analyzing What They Post on the Internet
Learning More About Incels by Analyzing What They Post on the Internet
AUTHOR(S)
Quentin Hunter, Department of Leadership and Counseling, Eastern Michigan University Anthony Kennedy, Department of Psychology, Western Kentucky University
Tiffany Bickett, School of Professional Psychology, Spalding University
The current study attempts to learn more about incels by analyzing what they post on the internet to gain a better understanding of why incels believe what they do. By analyzing an incel forum via qualitative analysis and thematic coding, we have created four main themes of incel ideology: Empathy and Community, Importance of Physical Factors, Hatred of Women, and Epistemology. The goal of this research is to better understand incel interactions among each other as well as how incels interpret and interact with the world outside of the incel community.
Spring 2025 Article 3