PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Painted Faces, Group Dynamics, Social Identity Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Observed masses of people from his balcony! Crowd: uncivilized individuals, people have lost their rationality, uncivilized and. Suggested that in crowds people submerge in a very primitive mind! The crowd makes people bad! mesmerized, great destructive ability! Le bon described three characteristics of crowds:! Suggestibility (more likely do something when someone else suggests them to do it)! Not going to weigh/consider advantage and disadvantages! The individual in the crowd behaves just as he wold behave alone only more so ! People who are bad, join the crowd, the crowd does not make people bad! Hypnotic state, can be used if controlled ! Le bon described crowds as a source of power! Allport (1924) was highly critical of le bon and argued:! Allport suggested that in crowd, people reveal their true nature! De-individuation refers to loss of sense of individual responsibility and reduction of inhibition. Two of the conditions that lead to de-individuation are:! due to joining a group!