Abe is an excellent athlete and normally an upstanding citizen. When he went to college, his teammates were prone to aggressive
acts against rival teams. One night after the team lost, Abe and his teammates rallied together to destroy the rival school’s locker room. What psychological phenomenon likely led Abe to identify with and act with his team members as a group?
Groupthink. According to Wikipedia, groupthink is “a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.”
Deindividuation: In social psychology, it is defined as the process of mislaying of self-awareness in a different group, even though this is considered as the resistance or disagreement situation.
Example: A person with deindividuation can belong to groups like cults, gangs, military, and mobs.
Not all deindividuation is a substandard thing.
Deindividuation is caused by factors like anonymity.
