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Jan 30, 2010 · Crowds can be subdivided according to whether they are active or passive, the former being a mob and the latter an audience. Mobs are further classified according to the dominant behavior of participants, whether aggressive, escapist, acquisitive, or expressive.
Feb 14, 2024 · Deindividuation: Mob psychology is frequently associated with deindividuation, where individuals lose their sense of self-awareness and self-restraint in a group setting. This can result in impulsive, irrational, or even violent behavior that individuals would not engage in on their own. Emergent Norms: In a mob, new norms and behaviors can ...
Abstract This chapter will try to understand the intricacies of mob psychology. Mob control is one of the most difficult tasks which law enforcement agencies have to perform as it is a big challenge to control a mob or crowd without violating human rights. It is imperative that the law enforcement agencies study about the psychology of the ...
- Swikar Lama
- 2021
- 1 Le Bon’s Theory
- 2 McDougall’s Theory
- 3 Freud’s Theory
- 4 Allport’s Theory
- 5 Turner’s Theory
- 6 Sighele’S Theory
- 7 Tarde’s Theory
- 8 Jung’S Theory
- 9 Adler’s Theory
- 10 Espinas’ Theory
Le Bon (2012) says that the individual identity melts away to form a group identity, with its own way of thinking and communication of emotions. This is the reason which causes mobs to commit heinous acts without any fear of the consequences. To be concise, the conscious, logical mind of the individual is replaced by the unconscious, illogical mind...
The theory of the behaviour of disorganized crowd or groups given by William McDougall (1920) is almost similar to that of Le Bon’s. He mentions two important factors influencing crowd behaviour, namely the heightening of emotions in a crowd which is simultaneously accompanied by the rationale level getting reduced. McDougall mentioned that the mag...
The explanation about escalation of emotion given by the theory of sympathetic induction proposed by McDougall does not find approval among many psychologists. In his essay, Group Psychology and Analysis of Ego (1959), Sigmund Freud states that Freud (1959) stated that, in a crowd, the individual members break away from their super ego, and come un...
McDougall’s theory of sympathetic induction of emotion and behaviour was also criticized by F.H. Allport. He used two principles to explain crowd behaviour, out of which one is the principle of social facilitation (1924). This principle of social facilitation states that the behaviour of one person adds to the emotional response of another, but it ...
Sociologist Ralf Turner came out with a different perspective about crowd behaviour which was known as the emergent norm perspective. The core idea of this perspective is that even the most violent and dangerous crowds display some social interaction in which certain behaviours are acceptable, boundaries are defined, and lines of action are accepte...
Sighele (2018) has mentioned that even though the mob has a heterogeneous nature, as it is often made up of people of different age groups, genders, classes, culture, and values and often formed on the spur of the moment, it exhibits collectiveness and unity to a large extent. Sighele also mentions that processes of imitation, moral contagion, and ...
Tarde in his work—‘Opinion and the Mob’(1901)—mentioned about the low intolerance among violent members of a crowd, their ridiculous egotism, their susceptible vulnerability, the shocking sense of irresponsibility which emerged from their illusion of being invincible, and, lastly, the total loss of control as exhibited by the extreme kind of behavi...
Jung has made various assumptions on the subject of mob criminality. He states that mobs are like wild beasts. The sudden explosion of the collective force of the mob brings about surprising changes in the state of mindset of the members (Jung, 1981). The members get converted from sensible human beings into wild animals. According to Jung, ‘If one...
Adler’s theory was based on the concept of inferiority complex (Ansbacher & Ansbacher, 1956). He stated that people who have an inferiority complex about themselves give up this complex when they are a part of a mob. Their inferiority complex seems to get overcompensated as a part of the mob.
According to Espinas (1878), an individual behaves differently when he is a part of the mob. He stated that a great public speaker can influence a crowd and bring them into a state of frenzy exhibiting acts like cheering, clapping, and hooting. This state of emotion brings about unity among the members of the crowd.
- Swikar Lama
- swikar_lama@policeuniversity.ac.in
- 2021
Aug 19, 2022 · Mass or crowd behaviors are referred to in many ways including mob psychology, swarm behavior, collective behavior, and herding. All capture the idea of looking at groups of people en masse, and how crowds behave differently from individuals. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provides many tangible examples of crowd behaviors such as panic buying ...
Mar 31, 2021 · 1.“Mob Rule in Orange”. Light: Pedestrian Zone by Maxpixel. Shadow: Police beat protesters at 1968 DNC, Chicago. Dennis Brack/UT Austin’s Briscoe Center. Open in viewer. This time the liberals invoked the mob, the terrorism, and the “mob” violence that must be brought under control. Mob rule in this case was represented by the “mob ...
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May 1, 2018 · The contribution will attempt to reflect on the interplay in recent theories of populism and crowd psychology between the ideas of mob and crowd on the one hand, and those of mass and people on ...
