PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deindividuation, Philip Zimbardo, Mikhail Gorbachev
29 Apr 2016
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When people become part of a crowd, they act instinctively and become irrational. Under influence of the collective mind (mental unity), people are less responsible for their actions, act based on instinct, become less intelligent and more violent. Allport - rejected the idea of a group mind and suggested that the individual in the crowd behaves exactly as he would behave alone, only moreso - crowds allow people to be bad, vs. make people bad. Guidelines for crowd policing: education about the social identities of different groups in the crowd, facilitation of crowd aims, differentiation of crowd members, proper communication with crowd members. Police tend to go with the first view of crowd behaviour (anonymity and diffused responsibility, which relates to bad policing and negative attribution toward crowds. Muzafer sherif, solomon asch and philip zimbardo - argue that social groups and crowds have characteristics that can"t be understood by studying individuals.
