Saturday, March 28, 2009

Crowds and contagion theory

Any application of contagion theory?

2 comments:

  1. Took me a minute to figure out what the crowd was chanting! When you think about it, isn't it odd that a huge group of people conform to saying the exact same thing at the exact same time?
    This reminds me of the time I brought a friend to the church I was attending at the time. I was Catholic, and she had never been to a Catholic church before. She was totally freaked out by the fact that everyone in the church stood, sat, and kneeled at the same time, and spoke in unison as well.

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  2. Yes! Excellent Brittany!!

    Other examples of how being a member of a crowd perhaps gives individuals the inclination to do things they might not do when singled out?

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