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3. Personality and The Internet
Created @August 11, 2025 3:12 PM
Class PS2050
Putnam 2001: social capital- the formation and maintenance of our social
network:
Bonding: maintaining pre existing connections, family, friends, long
distance connections
Bridging: forming new relationships, harder in person need to be in new
location
The Online Disinhibition Effect
Suler 2004
Online Disinhibition effect: Factors that causes people to behave online in a
way they otherwise would not do in real life
Benign disinhibition: being extra nice to better understand and develop
oneself
Toxic disinhibition: An acting out of unsavoury needs without any personal
growth at all.
Dissociative anonymity: Personal information is hidden, difficult to determine
who you are (no names or usernames)
Invisibility: Text-driven platforms means people cannot see each other or
even know they’re present
Asynchronicity: People don’t interact with each other in real time = Not having
to cope with someone’s immediate reaction.
Solipsistic introjection: Absent face-to-face (visual, verbal) cues combined
with text communication.
3. Personality and The Internet 1
, Dissociative imagination: Consciously or unconsciously, create an imaginary
online persona in an make-believe dimension separate from the demands and
responsibilities of the real world
Minimisation of authority: Absence of authority figure cues reduces their
power and status in cyberspace
Tripartite Self-Disclosure Decision
Model
Ostendorf and Brand 2022
The specificity of the environment, as well as our own cognition, has a greater
impact on shaping how we communicate online and whether we share
personal information online
Different individual and environmental features influence individual’s inner
decision- making processes including the interplay of three neural systems
(an impulsive, reflective, and interoceptive system).
This shapes evaluation processes that lead to the final self-disclosure
decision, followed by various consequences: behaviour-related
consequences, and feedback loops
First Stage
Individual features: Environmental features:
General attributes: Application related features:
sociodemographics, personality notifications social media
facets, fundamental needs cues/affordances, system
complexity, privacy settings,
Cognitive attributes: general audience characteristics)
executive functions, self
control/regulation Decision-situation related features:
information about positive and
Thinking styles: need for cognition, negative short/long term
faith in intuition, preference for short consequences, perceptibility of
term choices, problematic social consequences,
network use riskiness(severity/probability)
3. Personality and The Internet 2
3. Personality and The Internet
Created @August 11, 2025 3:12 PM
Class PS2050
Putnam 2001: social capital- the formation and maintenance of our social
network:
Bonding: maintaining pre existing connections, family, friends, long
distance connections
Bridging: forming new relationships, harder in person need to be in new
location
The Online Disinhibition Effect
Suler 2004
Online Disinhibition effect: Factors that causes people to behave online in a
way they otherwise would not do in real life
Benign disinhibition: being extra nice to better understand and develop
oneself
Toxic disinhibition: An acting out of unsavoury needs without any personal
growth at all.
Dissociative anonymity: Personal information is hidden, difficult to determine
who you are (no names or usernames)
Invisibility: Text-driven platforms means people cannot see each other or
even know they’re present
Asynchronicity: People don’t interact with each other in real time = Not having
to cope with someone’s immediate reaction.
Solipsistic introjection: Absent face-to-face (visual, verbal) cues combined
with text communication.
3. Personality and The Internet 1
, Dissociative imagination: Consciously or unconsciously, create an imaginary
online persona in an make-believe dimension separate from the demands and
responsibilities of the real world
Minimisation of authority: Absence of authority figure cues reduces their
power and status in cyberspace
Tripartite Self-Disclosure Decision
Model
Ostendorf and Brand 2022
The specificity of the environment, as well as our own cognition, has a greater
impact on shaping how we communicate online and whether we share
personal information online
Different individual and environmental features influence individual’s inner
decision- making processes including the interplay of three neural systems
(an impulsive, reflective, and interoceptive system).
This shapes evaluation processes that lead to the final self-disclosure
decision, followed by various consequences: behaviour-related
consequences, and feedback loops
First Stage
Individual features: Environmental features:
General attributes: Application related features:
sociodemographics, personality notifications social media
facets, fundamental needs cues/affordances, system
complexity, privacy settings,
Cognitive attributes: general audience characteristics)
executive functions, self
control/regulation Decision-situation related features:
information about positive and
Thinking styles: need for cognition, negative short/long term
faith in intuition, preference for short consequences, perceptibility of
term choices, problematic social consequences,
network use riskiness(severity/probability)
3. Personality and The Internet 2
