Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Deindividuation
- Nature of deindividuation
- reduced self-evaluation - decreased concern
about evaluation from others
- leads to an increase in antisocial behaviour
- more likely when anonymous - in a
large crowd or drunk
- Process of deindividuation
- social norms usually inhibit
antisocial behaviour
- inhibitions removed when deindividuated
- conditions that increase anonymity weaken
barriers to antisocial behaviour
- Research on deindividuation
- faceless crowd - lynchings more savage when large
crowds - Mullen (1986) : baiting crowd - Mann (1981)
- Reduced private self-awareness
- reduced self-awareness more important than anonymity
- in large crowds less able to self-regulate behaviour
- IDA
- Gender bias - males more likely to become aggressive when
deindividuated - Cannavale et al (1970)
- Real-world application - the baiting crowd
- Evaluation
- anonymity - Zimbardo (1969) found longer shocks when anonymous
- local group norms - people respond to normative cues within the social context
- meta-analysis - Postmes and Spears (1998) -
insufficient support for claims of theory
- evidence of online aggression when
deindividuated - Francis et al (2006)
- deindividuation may increase prosocial
behaviour in some situations
- cultural difference - cultures that change appearance
more brutal in war - Watson (1973)