Deindividuation - Aggression

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  • HOW DE-INDIVIDUATION LEADS TO AGG - Zimbardo 1969 distinguished between individuated and deindividuated behaviour. Individuated state - behaviour is rational.
    • De-individuation
      • Asked 229 undergraduate psych students in 13 classes 'If you could do anything with assurance you wouldn't be held accountable, what would you do?' Answers-anon.
        • Dodd found 36% of responses involved some form of antisocial behaviour; 26% were actual criminal acts; 9% were prosocial.
      • Private SA - concerns how we pay attention to our own feelings and behaviour. This is reduced when part of a crowd. Become less self critical, less thoughtful
        • Public SA - refers to how much we care about what other people think about behaviour. We realise we are one amongst many. No longer care about how others see us, become less accountable for actions.
          • ROLE OF SELF AWARENESS - experience of de-individuation as faceless crowd creates greater likelihood of agg.
            • Rogers and Prentice-Dunn 1982 - private and public self awareness.
  • De-individuated state: behaviours are emotional, impulsive, irrational. Anti-normative and disinhibited.
  • Conditions of a deindividuated state = masks, disguise, darkness, drugs, alcohol
  • According to Dixon 2012 - anonymity shapes crowd behaviour.
  • Research - Dodd 1895

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