The psychology of the Internet / Patricia Wallace.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume explores the psychological aspects of cyberspace, a virtual world in which people from around the globe are acting and interacting in many new, unusual, and occasionally alarming ways. Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications, business, and other fields, Dr. Wallace examines how the online environment can influence the way we behave, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Our own online behavior then becomes part of the Internet's psychological environment for others, creating opportunities for shaping the way this new territory for human interaction is unfolding."--Jacket.

The Internet in a psychological context -- Environments of the Internet: a taxonomy -- Language on the net -- Empowering Internet users -- Your online persona: the psychology of impression formation -- Warm and cold impressions -- The chilly Internet -- The socioemotional thaw -- Impression formation shortcuts -- Person types and categories -- Beyond age and gender -- Social cognition and categories -- The rhythms of impression formation -- Online, onstage: impression management on the Internet -- Online self-descriptions -- The home page advantage -- Focus on self -- Making that keyboard work harder -- Online masks and masquerades -- The origins of role play -- Leakage on the Internet -- Role play danger areas -- Identity experiments in the Internet laboratory -- The dupes in the experiment -- Detecting deceit, offline and on -- Deceit and suspicion: dance partners -- Pros and cons of the Internet's identity lab -- Group dynamics in cyberspace -- "Groupness" -- Conformity -- Conforming on the net -- The sign on the door -- The arched brow -- In search of the leviathan -- Experimenting with the leviathan on a social mud -- Group polarization -- Polarization on the net -- Finding others of like mind -- Virtual work groups -- The biased dicussion in online workgroups -- Minority opinions in online workgroups -- Workgroups and electronic brainstorming -- Developing trust in virtual teams -- Intergroup conflict and cooperation -- The robbers cave experiments -- Intergroup rivalries on the Internet games.

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