Summaries of articles on Mass Psychology 20/21

Summaries on Mass Psychology. This selection is based on the assigned articles for the Mass Psychology course at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2020-2021.

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  • Misconceptions about disasters
  • Protean Nature of Mass Sociogenic Illness
  • Collective and connective action
  •  Rumor, Gossip and Urban Legends
  • Collective action and psychological identity change
  • The role of social media in social activism
  • Le Bon's Classical Crowd Theory
  • Theories on collective behaviour, crowds and social movements
  • Studying crowd behaviour based on the Battle of Westminster event
  • How a good understandig of crowd psychology can help develop policing focused on reconciliation
  • What is emergent behaviour?
  • What are crowds?
  • Emotion and collective action

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Misconceptions About Disasters by Auf der Heide (2004) - Article
Protean Nature of Mass Sociogenic Illness by Bartholomew & Wessely (2002) - Article
The Logic of Connective Action by Bennett & Segerberg (2012) - Article
Rumor, Gossip and Urban Legends by DiFonzo & Bordia (2007) - Article
Collective Action and Psychological Change by Drury & Reicher (2000) - Article
Small Change, why the revolution will not be tweeted by Gladwell (2010) - Article
Psychologie des foules by LeBon (1895) - Article
Collective Behavior, Crowds and Social Movements by Milgram & Toch (1969) - Article
The Battle of Westminster by Reicher (1996) - Article
Knowledge-Based Public Order Policing by Reicher et al. (2007) - Article
Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe by Rodriguez et al. (2006) - Article
On crowds by Van de Sande (2005) - Article
Protesters as 'Passionate Economists' by Van Zomeren et al. (2012) - Article
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