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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 80



23. Edward A. Ross, “The Mob Mind,” Popular Science Monthly (July 1897): 390-98.


Essay regarding the power of contagion in large crowds. The author provides examples of herd behavior among animals and then asserts that “the human analogue to the agitated herd is the mob.”