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The Crowd

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First published: 1895
Pages: 160

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Preface, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
8:32
Introduction, The Era of Crowds
16:04
General Characteristics of Crowds— Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity
20:25
The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds
44:45
The Ideas, Reasoning Power and Imagination of Crowds
20:18
A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Convictions of Crowds
11:12
Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds
41:15
The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds
27:47
The Leaders of Crowds and their Means of Persuasion
42:35
Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds
23:59
The Classification of Crowds
7:46
Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds
9:12
Criminal Juries
16:00
Electoral Crowds
19:22
Parliamentary Assemblies
42:52

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First published in 1895, this short and influential study asks what happens to individuals once they become part of a crowd. Gustave Le Bon argues that people in a mass lose their capacity for reason and judgment, growing impulsive, credulous, and easily led, as though governed by a single collective mind. He examines how leaders sway assemblies, how beliefs spread by suggestion and contagion, and how juries, voters, and mobs behave in ways their members never would alone. The book became a foundational text of social psychology and was read closely by figures ranging from Freud to twentieth-century political strategists. Its conclusions remain debated, but its influence on how we think about propaganda and mass behavior is hard to overstate. Free PDF and EPUB edition available here.

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Gustave Le Bon

The Crowd, published in 1895, argued that a person inside a group loses individual judgement and takes on the suggestibility of the mass, which can then be led by images and repeated assertion rather than by argument.