Crowd psychology

gatekeeping strategies stem from the underlying premise of a positive correlation between IQ and contributor’s level of expertise in a given domain. The assumption therefore, is that expertise leads to better contributions and the expert crowd is the better crowd. A gatekeeping strategy popular in citizen…

day of shopping which is normally held every year on November 28. It is a day in which companies of various types offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is the kind of event where you will see a huge amount of crowds trying to buy the latest version of every items/products that was just released in the market. We are swayed and drawn to keep buying things we don’t really need, whereas we can use the money to do something much important that will be…

As I started this journey into the world of people watching I was immediately drawn to people who appeared to have similar traits as myself. As an observer, I would be remiss if I did not attribute this mostly to social comparison. Having grown up with several situations that shattered my confidence in social relationships at the most pivotal stages in child development I look for people I can compare myself to. I find people that share similar personality traits or characteristics that way I do…

Tory Higgins of Columbia University says that social psychology clearly backs up what happened in Ferguson — when people in a crowd see others acting a particular way, they are more likely to act that way as well. Looting, as an example, is more likely be done in groups ans also makes people…

he believes most likely because usually people do not want to think badly of the ones who raised, especially if they didn’t have a bad childhood. This means that by the way Milkman was raided, it has affected him in the future. A major aspect of psychology is how one's environment and interacting with people and their environment molds and shapes a person. From the text, we can assume that Ruth was a loving mother towards Milkman, and that he has no reason to hate her (besides being the reason…

of an ongoing programme tailored to generate a better understanding of the first principles of psychological processes underlying human aggression (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). A famous experiment widely propagated in the education of social psychology, demonstrating the importance of the power of social situations on people's behaviour regarding conformity, obedience and aggression. Zimbardo, vastly influenced by Milgram and his studies of obedience, which significantly…

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? “According to the American Psychiatric Association, Post-traumatic stress disorder is known to be an anxiety disorder that resulted from a particular tragic or terrifying incident stimulating major stress. Individual with PTSD normally have constant frightening thoughts & memories of their past encounters, this makes them emotionally numb to their close relatives or friends. PTSD knows no age limit or barrier, it can happen at any age. This disorder…

Hernandez English III K -1st 26 January 2015 Psychological Advances Causes More Corruption In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, many different types of sciences are associated with it such as neurology, sociology and social psychology. Psychology can be defined as the study of the human mind and its function in a given environment. The story starts off with the protagonist, Alex. With his gang, he roams around the streets robbing, beating men, and raping women. One of the crimes…

In 1964, the United States witnessed one of the most influential murders to affect the field of psychology. Kitty Genovese, was raped and murdered on the streets of New York, but that wasn’t the most horrifying part. What stunned everyone was that over 30 people watched and heard the murder, but chose not to help. This situation puzzled psychologists, as they and everyone else asked the obvious question—why didn’t anyone help? Thus, psychologists came to discover the now widely known bystander…

support Zimbardo’s theory and instead suggests that factors that affect deindividuation “decrease variability of people’s actions in collectives.” Postmes and Spears’ analysis is also supportive of the emergent norm theory, norms that emerge from a crowd due to the actions of a few key dominant group members. The Theory argues that group behavior is not out of control, but is socially structured by a temporary norm. In the Experiment, it may seem as if the events were out of control. However,…