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Introduction Deindividuation theory has attempted to explain the processes that take place once members have joined together to form a crowd. To critically evaluate this theory, one has to find answers to an essentially critical question. What effects do the antecedent variables of deindividuation (especially anonymity) truly have on an individual? On the one hand, do they have the effect of changing behaviour to the extent of rendering members helpless to control their actions, such that they begin to display, 'primitive survival characteristics' (Le Bon 1895). On the other, do they affect how a person perceives themselves and others in a group, what they conform to and how they express their identity? In essence, is the effect of deindividuation to disinhibit behaviour or is it to change the identity salience and group norms as well as alter strategic factors and power relations? Deindividuation theories Le Bon proposed the psychological law of the...

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