{"id":73120,"date":"2025-11-14T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/dieners-theory-of-deindividuation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:29:10","slug":"dieners-theory-of-deindividuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/dieners-theory-of-deindividuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Diener&#8217;s theory of deindividuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining collective behavior in terms of a person&#8217;s loss of self-awareness and sense of individual responsibility when joining a group or a large crowd, which is known as deindividuation. According to this theory, when a person becomes anonymous within a group and integrates into a large crowd, he loses some of the internal constraints that limit his behavior and becomes more prone to aggressive, impulsive, or out-of-the-ordinary social behavior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining collective behavior in terms of a person&#8217;s loss of self-awareness and sense of individual responsibility when joining a group or a large crowd, which is known as deindividuation. According to this theory, when a person becomes anonymous within a group and integrates into a large crowd, he loses some of the internal constraints that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-12-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychology-of-conflict-resolution-in-negotiation-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}