The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Author	Gustave Le Bon
Original title	Psychologie des Foules
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	Social psychology
Publication date	1895
Published in English	1896
Pages	130

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (French: Psychologie des Foules; literally: Psychology of Crowds) is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895.^[1]^[2]

In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others".^[1] Le Bon claimed that "an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself – either in consequence of magnetic influence given out by the crowd or from some other cause of which we are ignorant – in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotized individual finds himself in the hands of the hypnotizer."^[3]

^ ^a ^b Jaap van Ginneken. Crowds, psychology, and politics, 1871-1899. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 130.
^ Jahoda, Gustav (2007). A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War. Cambridge. p. 107. ISBN 0-521-86828-9.
^ Jaap van Ginneken. Crowds, psychology, and politics, 1871-1899. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. 131.

[JVG-1] Jaap van Ginneken. Crowds, psychology, and politics, 1871-1899. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 130.

[2] Jahoda, Gustav (2007). A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War. Cambridge. p. 107. ISBN 0-521-86828-9.

[3] Jaap van Ginneken. Crowds, psychology, and politics, 1871-1899. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. 131.

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