How does mob mentality alter and effect the actions of an individual?

Answer 1

there are 3 kinds of leaders
1-one who lead others
2-one who lead but takes initiative from the led
3-circumstantial leaders.
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Answer 2

OK, let me to you a story. When I was in high school I confronted an entire gang. I told them if they met with the freshmen again I would take them out one by one. Every one of them back down as I looked each one in the eyes.

In a group of people feel very powerful, that is why many join gangs. Individually most of these people feel weak, unless it's the gang leader. There is strength in numbers.

Unless someone is a gang leader they may never learn how to make decisions by themselves. So it does effect the actions of the individual.

Answer 3

Crowd psychology is a branch of social psychology. Ordinary people typically can gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to affect dramatic and sudden social change, in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy. The collective action that some people condemn, others support. Social scientists have developed several different theories for explaining crowd psychology, and the ways in which the psychology of the crowd differs significantly from the psychology of those individuals within it. Major thinkers of crowd psychology include Gustave Le Bon, Gabriel Tarde, Sigmund Freud, Elias Canetti, among others...

Answer 4

Another aspect of mob mentality is that people in a crowd are less likely to do something good or nice for someone else or to help out someone in distress. In the crowd a person tends to think: "No worry someone else will help them." A lone individual is more likely to think: "I'd better do something or no one will."

Answer 5

Basically you become like the people you hang with.....

This is true.... and hopefully you will see this before it is too late.

When trouble starts you should walk the other way.... as we by nature get influenced by what is happening around you...

A good example of this is in the nature, in bees.... Scientists have found that the whole bee hive need not be full of African killer bees before the bees swarm as killers.. Its the the actions of a few that have influenced the whole...

The answers to this and many questions are all around us...
Your attitude of examining questions and searching for good and honest answers will take you further in life. Better making the correct choices...

Good luck

Answer 6

As part of a mob you lose the idea of individuality, including your own morals and personal beliefs. You also lose the concept of right and wrong...in a general sense. What the mob does is right and any opposition to it is wrong.

Answer 7

The individual feels anonymous in a mob. Thus the individual feels he can get away with actions that normally he.she would most likely get caught for.

Answer 8

That is something I never understood. How could a person who is normally rational & smart become part of a crazy out-of-control mob? But I'm guessing that part of it has to do with the idea that because there are many people at the same time participating in this craziness, that he/she has no culpability.

Answer 9

shared responsibility, distributed guilt, not my fault if it don't work out, must be done for good of every body, it relates to teamwork and nation building us/them thinking. related to gang resonse seen in baboon to threats, like in how they will mob a cheeta and tear it into little pieces, to protect their females and children. The response in fear to a threat that one person would be unable to face but a group can deal with, so it is similar to team work and military and corporate loyalty and the french expression esprit de corps. cool question, mob think changes man into superman in the fascist fashion

Answer 10

People who are afraid to think for themselves or stand by their own beliefs are prone to mob mentality. Find a group, fit yourself inside and be invisible. Let the group talk for you. Not for me...no guts, no glory.