PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Cultural Pluralism, Collectivism, Neuroscience
6 Jul 2013
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Le bon: act instinctively and become irrational; destructive, pathological, and should be controlled. Mcdougall: crowds as violent, impulsive, suggestible, and emotional. Le bon and mcdougall: group collective mind making people less responsible and act based on instinct, become less intelligent, more violent; negative perception of crowds. Allport: rejected the idea of a group mind, individual in the crown behaves just as he would behave alone only more so ;crowds can be destructive and harmful. Zimbardo: large groups=less likely to follow normal rules of behaviours, send of diffusion of individual responsibilities; anonymity is a social circumstance that leads to the psychological state of deindividuation. Deindividuation: one loses this awareness of oneself as a distinct individual and feels less compelled to follow normal rules of behaviour. More likely to occur in group setting, contributed to tendency of engaging in highly destructive actions. Each individual is less distinguishable (uniforms, face covered)
