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deindividuation

/ diːˌɪndɪvɪdjʊˈeɪʃən /

noun

  1. psychol the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In the real world, Sanderson says, we are often bystanders as part of a group and because of that we experience “deindividuation”.

The fear that the Soviets will assimilate us is also a fear that our nightmare vision of Soviet deindividuation is, in fact, simply a reflection of our own culture.

Among those aspects is the principle of deindividuation.

Scott Fraser, professor of neurophysiology teaching at the University of California-Los Angeles, realized that made them ripe for testing one of the conditions of “deindividuation theory,” the idea that behavior is dictated by context—and something like anonymity can make people less inhibited.

From Time

In fact, when you look at Zimbardo’s description of conditions that contribute to a sense of deindividuation, it basically reads like a list of everyday road conditions.

From Slate

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