[Air-l] defending yourself online vs. offline research

Ulla, I recall a psychologist presenting experimental evidence at a conference at Miami University about three people with two confederates, passing a ball or "ball" to each other. The confederates would purposely leave the subject out of the ball tossing, only passing it to the subject every once in a while. His research showed that online people defended themselves more whereas offline they were more embarrassed to speak up. Online the subjects often wrote protests of their treatment or they at least questioned it. Beth Uhler of Miami U may recall who was on the program for their last conference to identify the author of that research or someone else who was there may recall. cheers, andrea