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.
Gustave Le Bon
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Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work Th
Crowd psychology
…of the universality of behavior, both of which conditions increase in magnitude with size of the crowd. Notable theorists in crowd psychology include Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Many of these theories are today tested or used to simulate crowd behaviors in…
Le Bon, c. 1900
Portrait of Gustave Le Bon, c. 1870
Gustave Le Bon on horseback, c. 1895
Gustave Le Bon, c. 1900