WOW! Actual scientific study of BOARD TROLLING
 

Flame away, my deindividuated bros! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/tec...me-me-bro.html

Social psychologists have known for decades that, if we reduce our sense of our own identity ? a process called deindividuation ? we are less likely to stick to social norms. For example, in the 1960s Leon Mann studied a nasty phenomenon called "suicide baiting" ? when someone threatening to jump from a high building is encouraged to do so by bystanders. Mann found that people were more likely to do this if they were part of a large crowd, if the jumper was above the 7th floor, and if it was dark. These are all factors that allowed the observers to lose their own individuality.

Social psychologist Nicholas Epley argues that much the same thing happens with online communication such as email. Psychologically, we are "distant" from the person we're talking to and less focused on our own identity. As a result we're more prone to aggressive behaviour, he says.

Another factor influencing online communication, according to Epley, is simply the risk of miscommunication involved with text-based messages, which are inherently more ambiguous. At the same time, he notes, email "has the feel of informality ? we just fire something off", even though we probably ought to treat it with the same care as a written letter. And, as most people probably know, this can cause problems for both the sender and the receiver.

So metman and AlienQ are more likely to jump off a building and kill themselves? NICE!

Very interesting, and I can see how it is 100% true in todays society.

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

A must read for many!

It seems to be accurate.

good reading, thanks

I don't get it.

bump

i dunno...i like whores & dope & fighting in real life, just as much as on here :thumbsup

I see the similarity between the prison experiment and some forums. Same hierarchical methods.

that standford experiment is nuts.. i saw a movie based on it i believe

gawd tell me that's Nutella

It's from the land of ******* so the chances of Nutella or other hazelnut-derived products is pretty slim. :(:(:helpme

It's crazy:thumbsup

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