According to Le Bon (1895), a number of factors contribute to the development of a ‘collective mind’, a concept from which the contagion theory of collective behaviour arose. Which is NOT one of the factors that Le Bon believed promoted this collective mind?
a. suggestibility
b. a sense of decreased power
c. a sense of anonymity
d. a sense of decreased personal responsibility
e. a liberation of animalistic instincts
Ans: b
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