We employed deindividuation theory and the space transition theory as basic criminological positions to drive the research. |
Early theories of crowd behaviour argued that people become more primitive when they are in a crowd, an idea that gained support in the 1970s following work on deindividuation in groups by American psychologist Edward Diener. |
The effect of organization-based self-esteem and deindividuation in protecting personal information policy. |
The variables of individual identifiability and group membership both had an effect upon both the social loafing and deindividuation measures. |
Hence deindividuation effects on private self awareness, as result of a group membership, can impair the ability to regulate one's behaviour. |
They suggested that this lack of social interaction or deindividuation may account for their CORFing results. |