Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition

By Noam Lapidot-Lefler, Azy Barak. Computers in Human Behavior, 2012

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Racism on the Internet: Conceptualization and Recommendations for Research (2018, background): “Online anonymity, defined by Lapidot-Lefler and Barak (2012), refers to online unindentifiability, or “the realistic condition of being unknown to online partners in terms of identifying personal details, such as gender, weight, age, occupation, ethnic origin, residential location, and so on” (p.…”
Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying (2016, background): “Studies also indicate that the extent to which individuals believe they are not visible to other online communicators (sometimes labeled as invisibility) can lead to anti-normative behavior (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2012).”
Detecting Changes in Suicide Content Manifested in Social Media Following Celebrity Suicides (2015, background): “The psychology literature indicates such cognitive biases to be associated with lower emotional stability and increased selfconsciousness [44, 25, 12].”
Why Do Adults Engage in Cyberbullying on Social Media? An Integration of Online Disinhibition and Deindividuation Effects with the Social Structure and Social Learning Model (2016, background): “Lapidot-Lefler & Barak (2012) have also used online disinhibition to explain flaming behavior and suggest that the disproportionately high occurrence of deviant behaviors such as “violence, incitement, flaming, and verbal attacks” on social media should be attributed to online disinhibition (p.…”
The benign online disinhibition effect: Could situational factors induce self-disclosure and prosocial behaviors? (2015, methodology): “The average duration of conversations was 40 minutes, in line with practices used in previous studies (Joinson, 2001b; Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2012).”