LE BON, GUSTAVE


Meaning of LE BON, GUSTAVE in English

born May 7, 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, France

died Dec. 13, 1931, Marnes-la-Coquette

French social psychologist.

After receiving a doctorate in medicine, he traveled and wrote books on anthropology, but his interests later shifted to social psychology. In The Crowd (1895) he argued that the personality of the individual in a crowd becomes submerged and that the collective crowd mind comes to dominate.

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