Your prof just doesn't like you, or so you think. Well, if he's going to give you a C on your mid-term, you'll just sign on to the Rate My Professor website and anonymously give him a D as a teacher and trash him as a man as well. In doing so, you are taking advantage of the Internet's encouragement of ____________.

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The act of anonymously trashing your professor on a website encourages deindividuation, where individuals lose their sense of individual identity and become more focused on the group or community they are a part of. In this case, the anonymous online community of students who rate professors encourage negative behavior that you may not exhibit if you were identifiable.

Your Prof Just Doesn't Like You, or So You Think