Herd Mentality Meat Sophistry

" They help keep disease from spreading in elk and deer herds 

 because they target the weak and sick members 

 of the herd,” 

 said Bethany Cotton, conservation director with the Eugene-based nonprofit Cascadia Wildlands. 

 “And they help keep other animals on the move, which helps riparian habitat.”  

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"Herd mentality (also mob or pack mentality)  

describes how people can be influenced by the majority.

Social psychologists study the related topics of  

group intelligence, 

 crowd wisdom,  

groupthink, 

             and 

deindividuation." 

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"The idea of a "group mind" or "mob behavior" was first put forward by 19th-century social psychologists  

Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon.  

Herd behavior in human societies has also been studied by Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter, whose book Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War is a classic in the field of social psychology. 

 Sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen's  

The Theory of the Leisure Class 

 illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior.  

More recently, Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, examines how cultural, social, and economic factors converge to create  

trends in consumer behavior

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