Nancy wrote:
They both make me think of the social psychological research on how
psychological distance from other people facilitates aggressive or other
negativistic behaviors. Anecdotal though it is, I know I have to
fight this from time to time on both highways. I wonder if
Hi
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Rick Adams wrote:
As it happens, I'm doing my doctoral research on the emerging Internet
culture (viewing the Internet as a distinct cultural group rather than as a
sub-culture), and this type of behavior (together with many other variations
from the norms and
Jim wrote:
Nothing that has been said so far (here, or elsewhere that I have
seen [without looking very hard]) indicates that there is
anything special about what happens on the net. With respect to
Mr. X, for example, how do we know that he does not act in
exactly the same way in
At 4:43 PM -0500 3/5/00, Rick Adams wrote:
In my own research, there appear to be some fairly
significant indicators
that online behavior does _not_ parallel offline behavior. Since my work is
largely cultural, versus strictly psychological, most of the material is
observational and
Hi
Thanks to people who suggested some things to read. I'd like to
follow up briefly on the road rage.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Rick Adams wrote:
Jim wrote:
different media. The same thing is true for "road rage" of
course. Is there solid evidence that such acts of rage occur
with
