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
Le Bon, c. 1900
Portrait of Gustave Le Bon, c. 1870
Gustave Le Bon on horseback, c. 1895
Gustave Le Bon, c. 1900
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
Gustave Le Bon
…invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. A native of Nogent-le-Rotrou, Le Bon qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Paris in 1866. He opted against the formal practice of…
The psychology of a crowd is a collective behaviour realised by the individuals within it.