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Privacy
Published in Stephen Buetow, From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care, 2023
When persons lose somewhere to be free from observation, they become part of the crowd. According to the 19th-century social psychologist Gustave le Bon,33 the crowd swallows each member’s identity and conscious personality. Through this anonymizing experience of deindividuation,34 individuals transition into socially normative expressions of themselves. They wear social masks to be accepted by groups and generate empathy and community, including a sense of collective effervescence.35 However, this effortful behaviour is often unhealthy. It weakens members’ ability to know and enact private and personal aspects of themselves. COVID-19 lockdowns have exemplified this moral challenge. Putting everyone into extended confinement has destabilized freedom of movement and decision-making outside and inside the home. Having others always nearby has made it difficult to spend private time in solitude. This erosion of physical privacy disproportionately has affected the poorest households where persons might not have their own bedroom, and crowding is a chronic stressor.36
Social Media and the Impact of Technology on Couples and Their Disorders
Published in Len Sperry, Katherine Helm, Jon Carlson, The Disordered Couple, 2019
As technology continues to evolve, new vulnerabilities are introduced to couples. The Multitheoretical Model also identified seven ecological vulnerabilities couples face because of technological advances. They are accessibility, affordability, anonymity, acceptability, approximation, ambiguity, and accommodation (Seven As). Use of the Internet itself allows for anonymity due to the numerous ways in which an Internet user can mask his/her identity and personality. Deindividuation can result in people who would normally not seek out online relationships becoming more willing to do so when they can take on alternative personalities and behave in ways that they normally would not behave in person (disinhibition) (Spears & Lea, 1994). However, this can also result in people integrating problematic online behavior into their offline lives, as well, resulting in negative consequences for their offline relationships (Hertlein, 2012). Anonymity allows an equalization of differences related to power, gender, and social status, resulting in greater exposure to a variety of individuals of diverse backgrounds from all over the world (Spears & Lea, 1994).
Psychology and Human Development EMIs
Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Aggressive cue theory.Appeasement gestures.Deindividuation.Fighting instinct.Frustration-aggression hypothesis.Hostile aggression.Instrumental aggression.Ritualisation.Social learning theory.Thanatos.
Tones and themes in Reddits posts discussing the opioid epidemic
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2022
Shyam Ramachandran, Laura Brown, David Ring
The observation of little variation from the overall negative sentiment across subreddits suggests that people approaching the topic in various contexts may generally have similar feelings about the opioid epidemic that transcend their individual interests, perspectives, and experiences and may belie their motivation for joining the subreddit community. People may seek a place where they express their frustrations and share them with others. While it was suggested that user anonymity can lead to deindividuation which can result in group identity which may limit variation14, the similarities across subreddits argue against this phenomenon as it is likely that each individual contributed primarily to one or 2 subreddits. People expressed various forms of frustration about opioids, both prescription and illicit.
Safe in the Rooms of A.A.: How Anonymity Helps Reduce the Stigma of Help-seeking and Reinforces Solidarity and Group Cohesiveness
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2020
The term “social status cues” is operationalized here as symbols (such as a person’s profession, wealth, or role in the community) that typically are the basis for respect, competence, and esteem accorded to people in a society (Weber, Gerth, & Mills, 1946). Tanis and Postmes (2003) examined the idea of a reduction of social cues and “impression formation” in the context of computer-mediated communications. In fact, it is primarily in computer-mediated communications research that we find theories that address social status cues in interpersonal communication, notably deindividuation theory (Festinger, Pepitone, & Newcomb, 1952), and the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE) developed by Lea and Spears (1991).
Alcohol and substance misuse in the construction industry
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2021
Joseph Flannery, Saheed O. Ajayi, Adekunle S. Oyegoke
A company culture of teamwork, supported by social events, is vital to workers’ happiness; although competitive pay and benefits at work are important, an employee’s happiness is dependent on so much more. The third grouping found team social events and health activities scored the highest factor loading, which may be due to a higher percentage of male respondents. Indeed, providing health activities and team social events may resonate with being part of a group, where the individual experiences deindividuation and workers may be less likely to follow normal restraints and generate a sense of emotional excitement. This would be the excitement that some respondents may not feel in their daily working life.