Mob psychology, or mob mentality as it is informally known, is the idea that we act differently in a crowd because we loose our sense our individual identities and we desire harmony within the group so we do not protest even when actions or sentiments are extreme.
Actually, I believe mob mentality has more to do with the way people act when they are in a group as opposed to the way they act as individuals and less to do with any sense of "justice"
Mob mentality does not have to do with the individual or group taking justice into their own hands. Mob mentality deals with the spread of emotion, good or bad, among humans when they are in a medium to large size group. typically in popular culture you hear about mob mentality (essentially herd behavior) in the context of people getting trampled in events such as black Friday shopping. this is usually a spread of panic through the crowd causing them to frantically rush toward their in-store goal, ignoring anything in their way.
Mob Mentality can be avoided by singling out people from the mob as individuals, showing that they are individual people from the mob, having individuals thoughts. #wonton
SeaNanners talks about mob ,mentality in his video about black ops 2.
Career criminals suffer from a mob mentality. I suddenly found myself far from the madding mob. The mob of chimps was suddenly gone.
Michael Hayes - 1997 Mob Mentality 1-11 was released on: USA: 6 January 1998
Body of Proof - 2011 Mob Mentality 3-4 is rated/received certificates of: USA:TV-14
McCarthyism is a mob mentality driven by fear, often a fear of something nonexistent. So the Salem witch trials is a great example of McCarthyism, for the people of colonial Massachusetts were driven by mob mentality and fear.
Nazi Germany..Salem witch trials
Weird True and Freaky - 2008 Mob Mentality 1-21 was released on: USA: 18 November 2008
They thought he was the Beastie. It was mob mentality.
The Holocaust fits in to mob mentality because all of the Nazis that did horrible things to the Jews probably would not have done that on their own. They felt that it was acceptable because the 'next guy' was doing it too.
Scout learns that mob mentality can fuel irrational behavior and violence, as seen during the mob scene outside the jail when a group of men gather to harm Tom Robinson. She realizes that people are quick to follow the crowd and abandon their critical thinking when swept up in the emotions of a group.
fear and mob mentality.