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The online disinhibition effect

People tend to become less socially inhibitive when communicating online vs communicating in person. This article introduces six factors that create online disinhibition: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination and minimization of authority. It argues online behaviour is not necessarily a reflection of our true selves, but instead a self in i.

 

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