Project Gutenberg #445¶
Le Bon, G. (1896). Project Gutenberg #445: A Study of the Popular Mind. Psychologie des foules.
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Primes¶
- Collective Effervescence
- The ethical line between genuine community events and manipulative engineering is contested and frequently crossed
This sourceFélix Alcan. English translation: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (T. Fisher Unwin, 1896). Founding text of crowd psychology; characterizes crowds as suggestible and capable of being directed by leaders/symbols — invoked for the manufactured-effervescence/exploitation tension (D28-009). Verified. Note: Le Bon frames crowds as irrational/regressive (a view the prime elsewhere explicitly rejects via Reicher), so it grounds the manipulability point but not a constructive account — see flag.
- The ethical line between genuine community events and manipulative engineering is contested and frequently crossed
- Emotional Contagion
- Sociology & collective behavior: Panic spreading through a crowd; collective grief, outrage, or euphoria sweeping a gathering; the rapid, near-uniform mood shifts of assembled groups that classical crowd theorists attributed (often pejoratively) to "suggestion," and that contagion reframes as coupling dynamics rather than loss of reason, a reframing traceable to Le Bon (1895) and sharpened by later collective-behavior scholarship.
This sourceFounding text of crowd psychology reframing 'suggestion' in collective mood — supports the marker-367 sociology/crowd-contagion reframing.
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Le Bon's 1895 text supplies the founding crowd-psychology use of 'contagion' and 'suggestion' for near-uniform shifts among assembled individuals, but it frames them as perversion and unreason, not as coupling dynamics.
“As the result of contagion the perversions are of the same kind, and take the same shape in the case of all the assembled individuals. The first perversion of the truth effected by one of the individuals of the gathering is the starting-point of the contagious suggestion.”
- Sociology & collective behavior: Panic spreading through a crowd; collective grief, outrage, or euphoria sweeping a gathering; the rapid, near-uniform mood shifts of assembled groups that classical crowd theorists attributed (often pejoratively) to "suggestion," and that contagion reframes as coupling dynamics rather than loss of reason, a reframing traceable to Le Bon (1895) and sharpened by later collective-behavior scholarship.
- Herding Behavior
- The origin_predates_discipline flag is arguable given older philosophical and sociological treatment of crowd behavior (Le Bon 1895 The Crowd
This sourceThe founding text of crowd psychology, widely cited as pre-formal-economics literature on herd behavior.
- The origin_predates_discipline flag is arguable given older philosophical and sociological treatment of crowd behavior (Le Bon 1895 The Crowd
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