The next blog will look at these folks. It will look at whether or not social group pressures and contagion and imitative tendencies, interacting with fragile self-concepts can lead to cultural phenomena like so-called Internet abuse and even eating disorders like anorexia.

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In Cyber-space, no one can see your rotten self-concept.

by Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D.

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