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What do contagion and convergence theories say about crowd behavior?

April 26, 2017Behavior contagion convergence crowd theories

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What do contagion and convergence theories say about crowd behavior?

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LeBon’s contagion theory is that a collective mind forms in a crowd which takes over the individual minds of crowd members and causes them to act alike. Convergence theory builds on this by suggesting that crowd members do not really lose their individuality in a group but act from their unconscious selves.