Mass psychology

· Outline Mass psychology is See also Crowd psychology Collective behavior Collective hysteria Collective consciousness (and Georg Lukács' critique of Le Bon's crowd psychology, notably through the concept of class consciousness) Collective unconscious Communal reinforcement The Wisdom of Crowds Earl Newsom Elliott wave theory Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon, early theorists of crowd and social psychology Group behavior Groupthink Herd behavior Herding instinct LGAT Mob mentality Nazism and fascism (Nuremberg rally etc) Volkgeist ("Spirit of the People")