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Deindividuation

Known as: Deindividualisation, Deindividualization, Deindividuization 
Deindividuation is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups, although this is a matter of… 
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2016
2016
Weaving the internet together: Imagined communities in newspaper comment threads
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Why Do Adults Engage in Cyberbullying on Social Media? An Integration of Online Disinhibition and Deindividuation Effects with the Social Structure and Social Learning Model
The dramatic increase in social media use has challenged traditional social structures and shifted a great deal of interpersonal… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
The World Made Meme: Discourse and Identity in Participatory Media
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed Self-Representation on Behavior
Virtual environments, such as online games and web-based chat rooms, increasingly allow us to alter our digital self… 
2003
2003
“How European am I?”: Prejudice Expression and the Presentation of Social Identity
We propose that the expression of prejudice may be used for publicly validating a social identity. This assumption was… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
"We're all individuals": Group norms of individualism and collectivism, levels of identification, and identity threat
Three studies were conducted to investigate the power of group norms of individualism and collectivism to guide self-definition… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Objective Self-Awareness Theory: Recent Progress and Enduring Problems
Objective self-awareness theory has undergone fundamental changes in the 3 decades since Duval and Wicklund's (1972) original… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The relation between group cohesiveness and performance: An integration.
Abstract : This paper reports on a meta-analytic integration of the relation between group cohesiveness and performance. Overall… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
The human choice: Individuation, reason, and order versus deindividuation, impulse, and chaos.
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