What constitutes a crowd from the psychological point of view-A numerically strong agglomeration of individuals does not suffice to form a crowd-Special characteristics of psychological crowds-The turning in a fixed direction of the ideas and sentiments of individuals composing such a crowd, and the disappearance of their personality-The crowd is always dominated by considerations of which it is unconscious-The disappearance of brain activity and the predominance of medullar activity-The lowering of the intelligence and the complete transformation of the sentiments-The transformed sentiments may be better or worse than those of the individuals of which the crowd is composed-A crowd is as easily heroic as criminal.
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
September 1982, Cherokee Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA 1982
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This translation originally published: London: Fisher Unwin, 1896.- Translation of 'Psychologie des foules'. Paris: F. Alcan, 1895.
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