Thread: WOW! Actual scientific study of BOARD TROLLING
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Old 11-20-2007, 02:57 PM  
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Interesting. Thanks.

Zimbardo and Milgram also did famous studies showing how people can become disconnected from other people in certain settings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
I see the similarity between the prison experiment and some forums. Same hierarchical methods.
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