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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 33-48Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/1540-4560.00247
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Those who feel better able to express their true selves in Internet rather than face-to-face interaction settings are more likely, to form close relationships with people met on the Internet (McKenna, Green, & Gleason, this issue). Building on these correlational findings from survey data, we conducted three laboratory experiments to directly, test the hypothesized causal role of differential self-expression in Internet relationship formation. Experiments 1 and 2, using a reaction time task, found that for university, undergraduates, the trite-self concept is more accessible in memory during Internet interactions, and the actual self more accessible during face-to-face interactions. Experiment 3 confirmed that people randomly assigned to interact over the Internet (vs. face to face) were better able to express their true-self qualities to their partners.
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