Name: Psychology of Crowds
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Author: Gustave Le Bon
ISBN: 9780244368005

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gustave Le Bon

Publisher

Lulu.com

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x1.8 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9780244368005

Synopsis "Psychology of Crowds "

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (French: Psychologie des Foules; literally: Psychology of Crowds) is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895. In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others..." Le Bon claimed "that an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself - either in consequence of magnetic influence given out by the crowd or from some other cause of which we are ignorant - in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotized individual finds himself in the hands of the hypnotizer."

Gustave Le Bon

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Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was an influential French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher, known for his studies on crowd psychology. His most famous work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895), explores how emotions and ideas can influence collective behavior, a topic of great relevance in the development of sociology and politics. His focus on the power of emotions and their impact on collective decision-making earned him recognition as a precursor in the study of social psychology.

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