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Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition
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“…experimentally manipulated conditions of anonymity, lack of visibility of social partners, and lack of eye contact—typical characteristics of anonymous social media interactions—it results in the highest level of inci-vility between participants during chat sessions (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lapidot-Lefler, N., & Barak, A.
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 434-443
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1974740257
- Cited by
- 673
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 16.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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