...subject. In the chapter on "The Mind of Crowds," he says (speaking from the psychological point of view): "The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the...clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call an organized crowd, or, if the term...

...objection to it. As a scientific description of what really occurs it is faulty in several respects. That the sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction is true only in part. Doubtless there is a general similarity of sentiments and ideas, but if it were...

...perplexing phenomena. Prof. Le Bon, in his work "The Crowd," says of the "collective mind" of men: "The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the...doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly marked characteristics. The gathering has become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will...

...characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it. The sentiments and ideas of all persons in the gathering take one and the same direction,...the absence of a better expression, I will call an organized crowd, or a psychological crowd. It forms a single being, and is subject to the law of mental...

...here say that a chair of "The Psychology of Crowds" has been established in the French War College. their conscious personality vanishes. A collective...doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly denned characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression,...

...here say that a chair of "The Psychology of Crowds" has been established in the French War College. their conscious personality vanishes. A collective...doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly denned characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression,...

...The psychological signification of a crowd is different." The aggregation becomes a crowd only "when the sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the...direction, and their conscious personality vanishes." A half dozen individuals gathered together may become a crowd more easily than hundreds assembled accidentally....

...persons in the same place without any bond of coherence. In the psychologic crowd, according to Le Bon, a collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory,...presenting very clearly defined characteristics. The crowd forms a single being, and is subjected to the law of the mental unity of crowds. " The most striking...

...personal interest to the collective interest (1960:30). As a result of this contagion, says LeBon, "A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory,...clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has become ... a psychological crowd. It forms a single being, and is subjected to the law of the mental...

...formed when "the sentiments and ideas of all the persons . . . take one and the same direction, and ... a collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory,...but presenting very clearly defined characteristics" ( pp. 2324). The causes of this transformation were threefold: the emergence of a sentiment of power,...