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Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds
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Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds

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In this video we provide a summary of the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon’s classic and highly influential work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. In this work Le Bon investigates the nature of crowd psychology.
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