Pathological Subconscious and Irrational Determinism in the Social Psychology of the Crowd: The Legacy of Gustave Lebon

McGuire, Gregory R.

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“…The classic work of Gustave Le Bon (1896), The Crowd: a study of the popular mind is considered an important milestone in the understanding of collective action. Though criticized for his anti-democratic bias, the issues raised by Le Bon fostered scientific debates along the 20 th century (McGuire, 1987;Moscovici, 1985). Le Bon argues that crowds are assembled as they bear three characteristics: suggestibility, feeling of invincible power and contagion.…”

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Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

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Ekman

2016

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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RESUMO -This study assessed the influence of Stereotypes about Parliamentarians and Behavioral Contagion on Political Participation, comparing two countries: Brazil and Sweden. Stereotypes were admitted to be useful to tell parliamentarians' groups apart and predict their behavior. Behavioral Contagion was investigated as a possible catalyst of political action. Online questionnaires were administered to 984 Brazilians (37.4% women) and 879 Swedes (46.5% women). Structural Equation Modeling assessed relationships among variables. Behavioral Contagion played a pivotal role on predicting political engagement. Stereotypes predicted participation where they challenged commonsense: Brazilians usually cannot tell the difference among politicians, then those Brazilians who could were more politically engaged; in Sweden, the factor "corruption" predicts noninstitutional types of Participation.

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“…Some researchers followed Le Bon's (1896) aristocratic ideas, while others tried to provide 'neutrality' to his analysis (McGuire, 1987;Nye, 1973). Social psychology studies have mostly found evidence that individuals tend to adjust their behaviors according to the surrounding crowd, with little self--criticism.…”

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Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

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Ekman

2016

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“…Reading the The Crowd demands from readers a sharp relativism to acknowledge that what seems strange in the book is rooted in the zeitgeist of the time when it was written (McGuire, 1987 (Jesus, 2013;McGuire, 1987;Miguel, 2002;Nye, 1973. Zimmermann, 1992.…”

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“…Some researchers provided continuity to the aristocratic ideas of Le Bon's, but it also others objected that reasoning and tried to provide more 'impartiality' to his analysis (Jesus, 2013;McGuire, 1987;Nye, 1973;Sandoval, 1997;Zimmermann, 1992). Subsequent scientific findings support and refine the author's concepts.…”

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“…Serge Moscovici, 1985 The classic work by Gustave Le Bon (2008Bon ( [1895), The Crowd: a study of the popular mind is considered to be an important milestone in the understanding of collective action. His work is appraised for the plausible description of the processes of collective action and decision and, at the same time, criticized for the pessimistic and even anti-democratic bias of the author's rationale (Consolim, 2008;McGuire, 1987;Moscovici, 1985).…”

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Engaging politics : political participation in Brazil and Sweden, predicted by stereotypes about parliamentarians, political education and behavioral contagion

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Attempting science: The creation and early development of the Institut métapsychique international in Paris, 1919-1931

Lachapelle

2005

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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In 1919, the Institut métapsychique international (IMI) held its first meeting in Paris. With their choice of a name, the founders made their intentions clear. By using the term métapsychique rather than the more common sciences psychiques, they indicated a departure from previous enterprises of such kind in France. By attaching the label international to it, they signified that this orientation was to affect not just French research on psychical phenomena, but that of the whole community. This article tells the story of the first 12 years of the IMI in its attempts to impose a program of research and to incorporate psychical phenomena into the scientific corpus in particular ways. The article ends in 1931 with a spectacular attempt by members of the IMI to dominate the international psychical research community. The failures of the IMI, both with psychical researchers and the scientific community in general, are explained here in terms of characteristics of the institute and the field itself.

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Pathological Subconscious and Irrational Determinism in the Social Psychology of the Crowd: The Legacy of Gustave Lebon

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Engaging politics : political participation in Brazil and Sweden, predicted by stereotypes about parliamentarians, political education and behavioral contagion

Attempting science: The creation and early development of the Institut métapsychique international in Paris, 1919-1931

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