The process whereby people lose their identity as an idiosyncratic individual and come to perceive themselves as an anonymous – and therefore less accountable – group member is known as:

a) collective aggression
b) deindividuation
c) dehumanisation
d) disinhibition

CORRECT = B

Psychology

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