Herd Mentality(群集心态)

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Herd mentality and [herd behavior][] have been prevalent descriptors for human behavior since people began to form tribes, migrate in groups, and perform cooperative marketing and agricultural functions. The idea of a "[group mind][]" or "[mob behavior][]" was first put forward by 19th-century French 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. In 2004, the *[New Yorker][]* 's financial columnist [James Suroweicki][] published*[The Wisdom of Crowds][]*.

21st-century academic fields such as marketing and behavioral finance attempt to identify and predict the rational and irrational behavior of investors. (See the work of [Daniel Kahneman][], [Robert Shiller][], [Vernon L. Smith][], and [Amos Tversky][].) Driven by emotional reactions such as [greed and fear][], investors can be seen to join in frantic purchasing and sales of stocks, creating [bubbles][] and [crashes][]. As a result, herd behavior is closely studied by behavioral finance experts in order to help predict future economic crises.[\[1\]][1]

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd\_mentality

[edit]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herd_mentality&action=edit&section=1
[herd behavior]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behavior
[group mind]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
[mob behavior]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_behavior
[Gabriel Tarde]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Tarde
[Gustave Le Bon]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon
[Sigmund Freud]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
[Wilfred Trotter]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Trotter
[Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instincts_of_the_Herd_in_Peace_and_War
[Thorstein Veblen]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen
[The Theory of the Leisure Class]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class
[consumer behavior]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_behavior
[Malcolm Gladwell]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell
[The Tipping Point]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
[New Yorker]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker
[James Suroweicki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Suroweicki
[The Wisdom of Crowds]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
[Daniel Kahneman]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
[Robert Shiller]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shiller
[Vernon L. Smith]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_L._Smith
[Amos Tversky]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky
[greed and fear]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_and_fear
[bubbles]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
[crashes]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality#cite_note-1