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26 December, 10:14

Janay is usually very quiet, but she recently discovered a different side. She was at the Mardi Gras and found herself swept up in the festivities, doing the things that the other party-goers were doing losing herself in the crowd. These were not behaviors that she would have ever considered engaging in on her own. Social psychologists would most likely attribute Janay's behavior to:

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  1. 26 December, 13:04
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    deindividuation

    Explanation:

    To deindividualize is to become part of the mass, which under the cover of anonymity makes its individual responsibility diffused among the rest of the crowd. That is, the behavior called "deindividuation" is the behavior that an individual presents when he seems to lose consciousness in the presence of a group and adopt behaviors of that group, which the individual never thought to adopt. Similar to what is happening with Janay.

    Research led by Diener (1980) and Mullen (1986) indicates that in this type of behavior, there is a directly proportional relationship between group size and a sense of anonymity, which tends to impose greater disinhibition and impulsivity on an individual.
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