Do Deindividuation and Anonymity Support Violence?

gamzoles
3 min readOct 21, 2018

One of the most important impacts of social groups is deindividuation which conceptualized as “a state in which inner restraints are lost when ‘individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals’” by Festinger, Pepitone, and Newcomb. (Diener, 1976). Early theories indicate that deindividuation is totally psychological situation which appears with group behaviors and actions. However there are…

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