Cause and Effect?
Michael Fenichel · 9/4/97 at 3:35 PM ET
(Better late than ever)....
You ask: "I'm wondering, though whether cyberspace CAUSES any disorders in people, or magnifies what is already there."
My feeling is that the reinforcement rate and magnitude does
magnify the experience of "reality" and "connectedness" and
they constitute primary reinforcers. I think, though, having
PERMISSION to "let it all hang out" behind the mask of an
avatar, may amplify the intensity of affect and the ease of
acting out impulses.
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