Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
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French polymath who cracked crowd psychology in 1895 with The Crowd, a book that basically defined how mobs think and still gets cited in everything from marketing to politics.
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Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology.
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