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Le Bon, Gustave

(born May 7, 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, France—died Dec. 13, 1931, Marnes-la-Coquette) French social psychologist. After receiving a doctorate in medicine, he traveled and wrote books on anthropology, but his interests later shifted to social psychology. In (1895) he argued that the personality of the individual in a crowd becomes submerged and that the collective crowd mind comes to dominate.

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