Dynamics of crowd-minds : patterns of irrationality in emotions, beliefs, and actions /

A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, percep...

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Main Author: Adamatzky, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2005.
Series:World Scientific series on nonlinear science. Monographs and treatises ; v. 54.
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Online Access:CONNECT