Crowd Psychology
A crowd is a chaotic , but still not devoid of a certain organization , a large gathering of people . Most often , it occurs due to the fact that some circumstances , events , incidents , etc . attract mass attention . However , this is not the only thing that unites people in a crowd , because the general mental state , tension , emotions , motives and other features come into force . All this , including the behavioral reactions of social groups and individuals within them , is studied in a separate field – crowd psychology . This article is dedicated specifically to her . We will try to consider crowd psychology briefly , but as objectively as possible . The crowd : the definition and nature of its formation For the first time, the famous French sociologist Gustave Le Bon tried to give a scientific explanation of the crowd phenomenon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . ...