Description
Psychology of Crowds
Gustave Le Bon
Psychology of Crowds is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895.
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…” 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.”
However his work has been criticised, for example Stephen Reicher a professor in crowd psychology who says its racist and sexist language handicapped the works conclusions and in fact his work has often been called the ‘poor person’s Mein Kampf’.
ISBN: 978-9939-76-696-6
Pages: 256
Cover: Hard
Language: Armenian
Format: 14.8×21
Translated from French by: Ashot Alexanian
Published by “Antares”, 2021