PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Suggestibility, Nurse Uniform, Social Identity Theory
12 Jul 2014
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The history of crowd: gustav le bon (1896, observed crowds and riots occurring in the streets of paris, suggested that in crowds people submerge in a very primitive mind . Stripped from becoming a civilized individual: dismissive attitude toward the notion of crowd, three characteristics of crowd: Anonymity people in crowds are anonymous; they are not known to each other; everybody is a stranger; everybody is the same. Suggestibility similar to being under a hypnotic state; they. Deindividuation: two of the conditions that lead to de-individuation are, group size(cid:224) as group size increases, deindividuation increases, anonymity(cid:224) as anonymity increases, deindividuation increases. Stanford university campus; wanted to show: if people are less known to each other in a city and they feel less accountable. This raises the issue of police brutality: ex. Do all uniforms create this sense of anonymity and lead to this behavior: no.
