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The crowd

Gustave Le Bon

FormatEbook
Published1996
Words54,945
LanguageEnglish
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Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd examines the psychology of groups, arguing that individuals in a crowd think and act differently than they would alone. It suits readers interested in social psychology, political behaviour, and the study of mass movements.
Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology.

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