crowd psychology
Mass mind study
Crowd psychology is the study of how people behave differently in groups than they would alone—how individual judgment yields to collective emotion, contagion of mood, and shared impulse.
The field examines phenomena like mob mentality, panic, and the heightened suggestibility that emerges in protests, riots, or stadium crowds: Crowd psychology explains why otherwise reasonable people join in looting.
- deindividuationLoss of self-awareness in groups
- groupthinkConformity-driven poor decisions
- mob mentalityCollective irrationality in groups
- mob ruleDominance by unruly crowds
- conformityAdherence to norms
collective behavior · group polarization · mass hysteria · in-group bias · peer pressure · herd behavior · pack mentality · emotional contagion · bandwagon effect · group dynamics · flash mobs · stadium wave · social loafing · anonymity · social proof · safety in numbers · social identity · bystander effect
- social psychologysocial behavior, conformity, social influence, attribution, groupthink
- event safetyevacuation plan, evacuation routes, emergency exits, security guards, barriers
- crowdshorde, mob, throng, multitude, masses
- civil unrestriot, riots, rioting, mob, uprising
- collective mindhive mind, hivemind, collective consciousness, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence
crowd psychologycritical thinking
Objective evaluation of information
logical analysis · reflective thinking · cost-benefit analysis
crowd psychologynonconformity
Rejection of prevailing norms
independent thought · rugged individualism · self-differentiation · contrarianism · personal sovereignty
crowd, crowded, crowds, crowding, psychology, overcrowded, uncrowded, overcrowding, crowdfunding