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What can people do to avoid deindividuation?

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Use has been made of material at following sites in answering this question:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~tpostmes/deindividuation.html
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/deindividuation.htm

People in groups tend to lose some of their own self-awareness and self-restraint when in groups. They become less of an individual and more anonymous. In a sense, people will do things in groups they otherwise would not because they feel less responsible for their actions and less like an individual.

Deindividuation theory is a social psychological account of the individual in the crowd. Deindividuation is a psychological state of ...

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