[fighterpilot]

There's research that shows woke signalling is highly correlated with both psychopathic traits and narcissistic traits.

The correlation is around 0.3-0.5.

That's evidence that it's used actively as a tool to gain either social status or something else.

[tolbish]

The study you pointed to indicates that these psychopathic/narcissistic traits apply to virtuous victimhood signalers on both the woke ("Recognize your privilege") and the anti-woke ("The real racists are all on the left") side of thing.

[infinitezest]

Do you happen to have a link to that research handy?

[fighterpilot]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32614222/