Understanding Crowd Psychology: The Basics!

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00:00crowd psychology is the study of how people behave in groups particularly how group behavior differs

00:05from individual behavior so what ash showed in his experiment is that people don't always act

00:11according to what they believe to be true instead they act according to what they think everyone

00:17else believes to be true and this is at the heart of crowd psychology so let's take a look at that

00:23now so before we can talk about crowd psychology we have to first define what a crowd is a crowd is

00:30defined as a collection of people brought together by a common interest or purpose this can include

00:36anything from a small group of friends hanging out at a party to a massive horde of strangers

00:41who are protesting against their government so while the size of a crowd does not necessarily

00:46determine whether or not crowd psychology is at play it does make crowd psychology more likely to

00:52happen because here's the thing the larger the group is the less personal responsibility people feel for

00:58their actions