SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Suggestibility, Deindividuation, Food Riot

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Galvin

Document Summary

Argues that when we are in crowds we lose a sense of self through the process of deindividuation. Not a lot of biological evidence (or evidence in general) for the claims made by this theory. Created in a time where people were worried about the potential of the masses to overthrow old order irrationality. 1: emotionality, suggestibility, destructiveness, spontaneity, anonymity, unanimity, pg. 585 - stampede involving these myths: talks about research and picks apart the myths. The opposite of contagion theory: more likely to see riots take place in rural areas. Values are strong and they are more likely to protect them. There is no psychology of groups which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals: skeptic of crowd psychology. Wednesday, november 30th, 2016: similar and like-minded individuals often come together to form crowds. There seems to be something bigger than the individuals within crowds.