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Study 1 provides a clean distinction between CMC and face-to-face (FTF) communication, asking participants to communicate in one of the two channels and utilizing an `identity shift’ (Gonzales & Hancock, 2008; Walther et al., 2011) as the dependent variable of interest. If inflated communication does in fact exist in CMC then results should show a significantly larger shift in participants’ self reports of the assigned personality trait in the CMC conditions than in the FTF conditions. Study 2 explores a mechanism by which inflated communication can occur in computer-mediated environments. Looking at behavioral confirmation, this experiment replicates the traditional study (Snyder, Tanke, & Berscheid, 1977) in a computer-mediated environment and again measures `identity shift’ to determine the extent to which behavioral confirmation might explain the inflated shift of self-expressions that occurs in CMC. 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