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The psychology of a crowd is a collective behaviour realised by the individuals within it. A category of social psychology known as "crowd psychology" or "mob psychology" examines how the psychology of a group of people differs from the psychology of any one person within the group.
Herd mentality is the tendency for people’s behavior or beliefs to conform to those of the group they belong to. The concept of herd mentality has been studied and analyzed from different perspectives, including biology, psychology and sociology. This psychological phenomenon can have profound impacts on human behavior.
An example of this is when a large group try to get out of a building and the individuals at the front are crushed against the doors by the weight of the people behind them. A type of angry collective state is often referred to as mob mentality. The members of the group feed off of each other's anger and the collective mental state can become ...
Janice Harper followed her Huffington Post essay with a series of essays in both The Huffington Post [6] and in her column "Beyond Bullying: Peacebuilding at Work, School and Home" in Psychology Today [7] that argued that mobbing is a form of group aggression innate to primates, and that those who engage in mobbing are not necessarily "evil" or ...
We’ve heard ‘mob mentality’ — and he describes it to a T." That's what many are saying — that participants acted in ways they wouldn't have naturally, but the crowd of like-minded people ...
Shimmering behaviour of Apis dorsata (giant honeybees). A group of animals fleeing from a predator shows the nature of herd behavior, for example in 1971, in the oft-cited article "Geometry for the Selfish Herd", evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton asserted that each individual group member reduces the danger to itself by moving as close as possible to the center of the fleeing group.
When someone as powerful as the president tells a large group of his supporters to 'fight like hell,' they will listen to him and feed off each other.
At Synanon, sobriety was achieved not just with mutual support but through mob-directed brainwashing. If an addict broke the rules, he faced public humiliation, such as being forced to wear a sign around his neck or shave his head. A centerpiece of the treatment was a confrontational form of group therapy that became known as the Game.