PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWD: THEORIES OF HERD INSTINCT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

GORBATOV, DMITRY; Bolshakov, Sergej

doi:10.7868/S20000392-8-1

RAS Social ScienceПсихологический журнал Psikhologicheskii zhurnal

ISSN (Print) 0205-9592

ISSN (Online) 3034-588X

PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWD: THEORIES OF HERD INSTINCT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

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S0205-95920000392-8-1

DOI

10.7868/S20000392-8-1

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Article

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Published

Authors

DMITRY GORBATOV

Sergej Bolshakov

Abstract

General characteristic of human’s instincts paradigm is given and main directions of its critic in social psychology at the beginning of the XX century is presented. The content of W. Trotter’s and VA. Vagner’s theories in which herd instinct is described as a human’s beyond-rational instinct is analyzed. Mutual contradictoriness of these theories that is determined by fundamental limitations of the idea of social behavior determination by the whole set of inherited predispositions is marked. In the context of question of possibility of returning to the subject field of psychology of spontaneous integration of herd instinct the conclusion about insufficiency of notion’s explanatory potential is drawn.

Keywords

crowd, human’s instincts, herd instinct, “theory of herd instinct” by W. Trotter, “theory of crowd” by V.A. Vagner

Date of publication

14.12.2025

Year of publication

2025

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684

References

GOST	Bolshakov S., GORBATOV D. PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWD: THEORIES OF HERD INSTINCT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. – 2017. – V. 38. – Issue 1 C. 98-106 . DOI: 10.7868/S20000392-8-1
MLA	Bolshakov, Sergej, GORBATOV, DMITRY "PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWD: THEORIES OF HERD INSTINCT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. 38.1 (2017).:98-106. DOI: 10.7868/S20000392-8-1
APA	Bolshakov S., GORBATOV D. (2017). PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWD: THEORIES OF HERD INSTINCT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal. vol. 38, no. 1, pp.98-106 DOI: 10.7868/S20000392-8-1

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