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From: "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:24:00 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
"gbtmud" <gbtmud@hotmail.com> writes:
>> There is no reason to believe that humans in online worlds are
>> significantly different than humans in the physical world. Is
>> there?
> On the contrary. It is well known that people on the net tend to
> be less constrained by the regular rules of conduct since they
> cannot be held accountable because of the nature of the
> medium. This tends to lead toward more aggressive behaviour, at
> least in my experience.
You have disinhibition in the real world as well, for instance when
wearing a uniform, going to a place where nobody knows you etc.
--
Ola - http://folk.uio.no/olag/
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