The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Social psychology book by Gustave Le Bon (1895) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1][2]
Author | Gustave Le Bon |
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Original title | Psychologie des Foules |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Genre | Social psychology |
Publication date | 1895 |
Published in English | 1896 |
Pages | 130 |
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".[1] 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."[3]