Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Ethics and Information Technology
Punishment and ethics deterrents: A study of insider security contravention
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace
Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace
Plagiarism, Graduate Education, and Information Security
IEEE Security and Privacy
Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress
Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance
Journal of Management Information Systems
Disengaging from a distributed research project: Refining a model of group departures
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Office outbursts are often associated with impulsive reactions to something that is said or done that aggravates an individual by offending his or her beliefs, expectations, sensibilities, or principles. Vengefulness is linked to needs for retribution (until satisfied) for a perceived offense. An unsettled issue is whether these antecedents are also manifested in electronic expressions known as cyber smearing. Free speech by constitution and legislation in the US, UK, EU have been held as a cherished value and basic right, but the rights to free speech are not unlimited and in fact are legally constrained to varying degrees regarding issues such as related to privacy, defamation, and harassment. Cyber smearing is a campaign waged to damage the credibility or reputation of others over the Internet. Using a randomized study we investigated rash impulsivity, vengefulness, and anonymous identity (a virtual self), as factors contributing to cyber smearing, and we found that when people who lack self-control and have tendencies to seek revenge especially when shrouded in anonymity of virtual self and concomitantly have high tendencies toward cyber smearing. We also found that those who hold the view in which ethical standards are situational and relative amplifies these cyber smearing behaviors.