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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2005.
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Colección: | World Scientific series on nonlinear science. Monographs and treatises ;
v. 54. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index. |
ISBN: | 9812569480 9789812569486 9812562869 9789812562869 |