de individuation

Question 1

(crowd behaviour) - because we are identified by others, our behaviour is constrained by social norms - aggressive behaviour discouraged

Answer 1

Le Bon

Question 2

aggression is not due to anonymity directly, but the consequences of anonymity. two types of self awareness- private (paying attention to ourself is less when part of a crowd - less self critical) and public (caring less abt what others think of behaviour)

Answer 2

prentice-dunn and rogers

Question 3

asked 229 undergraduate psychology students in 13 classes - ‘if you could do anything humanly possible w assurance that you wouldnt be detected, what would you do?’

36% antisocial behaviour
26% actual criminal acts, most commonly ‘rob a bank’
9% were prosocial

Answer 3

Dodd

Question 4

aggressive online behaviour in chatrooms - strong correlation between anonymity and threatening messages

Answer 4

Douglas x McGarty

Question 5

deviance in the dark’
selected groups of 8 participants - all strangers - placed in dark room for 1 hour- mostly stopped talking but started kissing and touching intimately. study then repeated and told they would come face to face after the hour - amount declined

Answer 5

gergen et al

Question 6

females give fake electric shocks to confeds -
1- dressed in KKK outfit mask hiding face
2- nurse outfit
3- control normal clothes

prosocial as nurse more aggressive as KKK

Answer 6

johnson x downing