The Online Disinhibition Effect By Dr. John Suler

Donald Trump’s use of twitter and the psychology behind it is analyzed through social media phenomena. The article “The Online Disinhibition Effect” by Dr. John Suler and the article “Did social media run election 2016) will be discussed through the point of views of Donald Trump’s use of twitter during the election” by Sam Sanders examines how the use of social media affect behaviors. Dr. Suler’s position is that the internet has a disinhibition effect, which for example, aggravates the use of twitter by Trump. He also argues online disinhibition is effected by six factors that interact with each other, which include: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic in-trojection, dissociative imagination, and minimization
Individual styles vary with the intensity of the this inhibition, therefore two personality types are primarily shown. One type is Histrionic, such as how Trump tends to be emotional and compulsive, and there are others unlike him that are more restrained in what they say. Ultimately, all the factors considered by Suler indicate that's Trump’s usage of twitter was affected by all six variables, and in fact, because of this histrionic style, the disinhibition within him is more intense than others. Additionally, there is a shift amongst intro-psychic approaches, whereas individuals express that they feel more of their true selves online than in the real world. Therefore, a release of hostility online indicates the true self rather than real life behaviors. For example, a shy woman is able to express her affection more easily online and may claim to be that this is her true self than in the real world. We must remember that the expression that it is your true self is determined by personal and cultural values that determine the true aspects of one's
The introjection of the individual attributing a series of characteristics to Trump that allowed him not to focus on real policy issues but rather on noise and unimportant matters. The dissociative imagination that the online persona creates is not the same as a real life persona and the ability of the minimization of authority created an individual that uses twitter in toxic and destructive ways. Such as how is has affected the ability of the news media and the world of information, of science to focus on real important issues, and it eliminates the ability of thoughtful and constructive intellectual