PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Gustave Le Bon, Floyd Henry Allport, Mass Arrest

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

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One of the largest mass arrest in canada history is the protest in toronto against the. Being in a crowd leads to anonymity = less responsible for their action. More likely to give in their urges to act unreasonably and aggressively. This irrationality is contagious through the crowd due to heightened. Believed that crowd has to be controlled. The individual in the crowd behaves just as he would behave along only more so. Le bon: crowd made people go mad; allport: crowd allowed people to be mad. Both agreed that crowds are destructive and harmful. Elaborate social identity model = the development of a new identity. Everyone in the crowd shares a common social identity. Physical force used by police but does not perceived as legitimate by the crowd. When the crowd feels that it has the power to resist the police. Perceived the group as heterogeneous but made distinction between majority and minority people.