Crowd psychology
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Crowd psychology is a subfield of social psychology which examines how the psychology of a group of people differs from the psychology of any one person within the group. The study of crowd psychology
The psychology of a crowd is a collective behaviour realised by the individuals within it.
Deindividuation
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Deindividuation is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups, although this is a matter of contention. For the social psychologist, the level
Crowd psychology
…processes of both the individual members of the crowd and of the crowd as a collective social entity. The behavior of a crowd is much influenced by deindividuation (seen as a person's loss of responsibility) and by the person's impression of the universality of behavior, both of which conditions increase in magnitude…
A graph showing the results of a study (Diener, 1976) on the effects of anonymity on cheating