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In The Crowd , Gustave Le Bon posits that with the rise of democracy and industrialization, it's the unreasoning crowds who will control the affairs of the people, not kings or the elite; and these crowds are largely irrational in action, conservative in thought, violent both... Read Full Overview

One of the most influential works of social psychology in history, The Crowd was highly instrumental in creating this field of study by analyzing, in detail, mass behavior. The book had a profound impact not only on Freud but also on such twentieth-century masters of crowd... Read Full Overview

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the 20th-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the "I" he explores the notion of "mass-psychology"--his... Read Full Overview

"The masses have never thirsted after the truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." Thus writes Gustave Le Bon in The Crowd, widely regarded as one of the most insightful works... Read Full Overview

In The Crowd , Gustave Le Bon posits that with the rise of democracy and industrialization, it's the unreasoning crowds who will control the affairs of the people, not kings or the elite; and these crowds are largely irrational in action, conservative in thought, violent both... Read Full Overview

A temporary classic treatise of mob psychology. Vietnamese translation by Nguyen Xuan Khanh. In Vietnamese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

L'ensemble de caractères communs imposés par le milieu et l'hérédité a tous les individus d'un peuple constitue l''me de ce peuple. Ces caractères étant d'origine ancestrale, sont très stables. Mais lorsque, sous des influences diverses, un certain nombre d'hommes se trouvent... Read Full Overview

First published in 1895, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" is a pivotal work in the field of group psychology written by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon theorizes that there are several characteristics of crowds as distinguishable from individual behavior... Read Full Overview

Le Bon's superb and innovative study of crowd psychology is published here without abridgment. First appearing in the 1890s, Gustav Le Bon's account of the crowd is an important work of early psychology. In life, Le Bon was famous for mastering aspects of several scientific disciplines,... Read Full Overview

Gustave Le Bon, considerado uno de los fundadores de la psicolog a social, se adentra en el concepto de masa abarcando tres reas: los individuos, su relaci n con los dem s y la vida en sociedad. "La masa es siempre intelectualmente inferior al hombre aislado. Pero, desde el... Read Full Overview

In this clear and vivid book, Gustave Le Bon throws light on the unconscious irrational workings of group thought and mass emotion as he places crowd ideology in opposition to free-thinking and independent minded individuals.The ideas le Bon explores in this book are extremely... Read Full Overview

"The masses have never thirsted after the truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." Thus writes Gustave Le Bon in The Crowd, widely regarded as one of the most insightful works... Read Full Overview

El libro Sicolog a de las masas, del psic logo social franc s, soci logo y f sico aficionado Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) se volvi fundamental en la primera mitad del siglo XX cuando fue usado por investigadores de medios de comunicaci n masivos para describir reacciones de... Read Full Overview

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (French: Psychologie des Foules; literally: Psychology of Crowds) is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895. In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness,... Read Full Overview

Le Bon's superb and innovative study of crowd psychology is published here without abridgment. First appearing in the 1890s, Gustav Le Bon's account of the crowd is an important work of early psychology. In life, Le Bon was famous for mastering aspects of several scientific disciplines,... Read Full Overview

Questo saggio costituisce una vera e propria miniera d'oro per chi vuole comprendere il comportamento della folla. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler e altri lessero meticolosamente l'opera di Le Bon e l'uso di determinate tecniche di persuasione nella loro dittatura sembra trarre ispirazione... Read Full Overview

Organised crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal characteristics of... Read Full Overview

Gustav Le Bon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, Le Bon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem... Read Full Overview