Online disinhibition effect

Now, as we do every episode, let's establish our psychological baseline right out of the gate.

In 2004, there's a clinical psychologist named Dr. John Suler who published a seminal paper that was identifying online disinhibition effect.

Through that study, Suler outlined six specific structural mechanics that alter human cognition the moment that we interact through a digital interface.

The first mechanic is dissociative anonymity.