Postmes, T. & Spears, R. (1998). Psychological Bulletin, 123(3), 238–259.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The meta-analytic support Hornsey (NOTE-1253) cites for the SIDE model (LIT-1744).
Read in its place
The work cannot be read here, so the record holds it at second hand.
Spears 2021 (NOTE-1268). It gives the meta-analysis’s conclusion in one paragraph (p. 375). Group immersion and anonymity enhanced depersonalization and conformity to local group norms, not antinormative behaviour, once local norms are kept apart from general societal ones. Missing still: the number of studies (the LIT’s “60” is not confirmed here), effect sizes, the moderators tested, how “antinormative” was coded, and whether self-awareness itself was meta-analysed.
Spears & Postmes 2015 (NOTE-1280). It gives the conclusion in one sentence: anonymity in the group “actually enhances conformity to local or specific group norms, rather than increasing antinormative or antisocial behavior” (p. 29). Beside it, it cites later CMC studies in which anonymity did not lower self-awareness and self-awareness did not predict disinhibition. Missing still: the number of studies (the LIT’s “60” is not confirmed), effect sizes, moderators, the coding of antinormative behaviour, and whether the meta-analysis tested self-awareness itself.