Project Gutenberg 1996-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 1347 Le Bon, Gustave 1841 1931 Bon, Gustave Le Bon, Gustave le Psychologie des foules. English The crowd : $b A study of the popular mind Translation of Psychologie des foules Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation. "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" by Gustave Le Bon is a scientific publication written during the late 19th century. The book explores the psychology of crowds, highlighting how collective behaviors and sentiments diverge from those of individuals, resulting in new psychological characteristics when people are gathered together. The opening of the book presents Le Bon's thesis on the inherent unpredictability and unique mentality of crowds. He explains that individuals within a crowd relinquish their personal identities, becoming susceptible to suggestion and emotional contagion, which can lead to impulsive, often irrational decisions. The author emphasizes the duality of crowd psychology, showcasing how crowds can display either heroic or criminal tendencies based on the prevailing ideas and emotions at play, and underscores the critical need for understanding this psychological dynamic in order to navigate the complexities of societal behavior. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 45.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Crowds HM Text Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Sociology 383766 2025-08-01T05:28:39.363991 text/html 383587 383775 2025-01-01T05:36:03.278215 2023-10-01T05:17:17.218234 text/html text/html 215255 2025-08-01T05:28:45.691945 application/epub+zip 219191 2025-08-01T05:28:41.861989 application/epub+zip 206367 2025-08-01T05:28:40.793996 application/epub+zip 351086 2025-08-01T05:28:48.814947 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333433 2025-08-01T05:28:45.055976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301475 2022-08-01T05:10:17.223390 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 359007 2025-08-01T05:28:39.038035 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 339247 2024-02-06T12:35:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16931 2025-08-01T05:28:48.956930 application/rdf+xml 10677 2025-08-01T05:28:41.294976 image/jpeg 2761 2025-08-01T05:28:41.039967 image/jpeg 210193 2025-08-01T05:28:39.400994 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia