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Gustave Le Bon

The Crowd; study of the popular mind

Psychology of Crowds by Gustave Le Bon
A foundational work in social psychology exploring crowd behavior. Le Bon examines how individuals lose personal identity in groups, becoming susceptible to irrationality and emotional influence, shedding light on mass movements, propaganda, and the dynamics of collective behavior.
206 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2025
Publication year
2025
Publisher
Iztaccíhuatl
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  • Heorhiihas quoted2 years ago
    “The decisions with which we have been so reproached,” he says, “Were not disired by us two days, a single day before they were taken: it was the crisis and nothing else that gave rise to them.” Nothing can be more accurate.
  • Heorhiihas quoted2 years ago
    When parliamentary assemblies reach a certain pitch of excitement they become identical with ordinary heterogeneous crowds, and their sentiments in consequence present the peculiarity of being always extreme
  • Heorhiihas quoted2 years ago
    Crowds instinctively recognise in men of energy and conviction the masters they are always in need of.

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