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Copycats & contrarians : why we follow others... and when we don't / by Baddeley, Michelle,1965-author.(CARDINAL)665648;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Clever coping -- Mob psychology -- Herding on the brain -- Animal herds -- Mavericks -- Entrepreneurs versus speculators -- Herding experts -- Following the leader -- Conclusion: copycats versus contrarians.A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group choices all too often seem maladaptive. With unprecedented speed, information flashes across the globe and drives rapid shifts in group opinion. Adverse results can include speculative economic bubbles, irrational denigration of scientists and other experts, seismic political reversals, and more. Drawing on insights from across the social, behavioral, and natural sciences, Michelle Baddeley explores contexts in which behavior is driven by the herd. She analyzes the rational vs. nonrational and cognitive vs. emotional forces involved, and she investigates why herding only sometimes works out well. With new perspectives on followers, leaders, and the pros and cons of herd behavior, Baddeley shines vivid light on human behavior in the context of our ever-more-connected world.
Subjects: Collective behavior.;
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Strange contagion : inside the surprising science of infectious behaviors and viral emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / by Kravetz, Lee Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)351639;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-267).The valley of the shadow -- The perfect model -- The frenzied -- The motivators -- The interrupters -- The interlopers -- The conversation -- The community."Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion. In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died by suicide by stepping in front of an oncoming train. Grief-stricken, the community mourned what they thought was an isolated loss. Until, a few weeks later, it happened again. And again. And again. In six months, the high school lost five students to suicide at those train tracks. A recent transplant to the community and a new father himself, Lee Daniel Kravetz's experience as a science journalist kicked in: what was causing this tragedy? More important, how was it possible that a suicide cluster could develop in a community of concerned, aware, hyper-vigilant adults? The answer? Social contagion. We all know that ideas, emotions, and actions are communicable--from mirroring someone's posture to mimicking their speech patterns, we are all driven by unconscious motivations triggered by our environment. But when just the right physiological, psychological, and social factors come together, we get what Kravetz calls a "strange contagion:" a perfect storm of highly common social viruses that, combined, form a highly volatile condition. Strange Contagion is simultaneously a moving account of one community's tragedy and a rigorous investigation of social phenomenon, as Kravetz draws on research and insights from experts worldwide to unlock the mystery of how ideas spread, why they take hold, and offer thoughts on our responsibility to one another as citizens of a globally and perpetually connected world"--
Subjects: Collective behavior.; Contagion (Social psychology); Social psychology.;
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Crowds and power / by Canetti, Elias,1905-1994.(CARDINAL)505547;
Bibliography: pages 485-495.
Subjects: Crowds.; Collective behavior.; Power (Social sciences);
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The delusions of crowds : why people go mad in groups / by Bernstein, William J.,author.(CARDINAL)705931;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude -- Joachim's Children -- Believers and Rogues -- Briefly Rich -- George Hudson, Capitalist Hero -- Miller's Run -- Winston Churchill's Excellent Adventure -- in Monetary Policy -- Sunshine Charlie Misses the Point -- Apocalypse Cow -- God's Sword -- Entrepreneurs of the Apocalypse -- Dispensationalist Catastrophes: Potential and Real -- Rapture Fiction -- Capitalism's Philanthropists -- Hucksters of the Digital Age -- Mahdis and Caliphs -- Epilogue.""We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history, compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups-with enormous, often disastrous consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial manias in western society over the last 500 years-from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today's polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot-com bubbles of recent years. In Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation- invariably "the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next." As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time and avoid its often dire consequences"--
Subjects: Collective behavior; Delusions; Crowds;
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Culture and behavior : collected essays. / by Kluckhohn, Clyde,1905-1960.(CARDINAL)150667;
Subjects: Ethnology.;
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Hivemind : thinking alike in a divided world / by Cavanagh, Sarah Rose,author.(CARDINAL)803025;
Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind. Our views of the world are shaped by the stories told by our self-selected communities. Whether seeking out groups that share our tastes, our faith, our heritage, or other interests, since the dawn of time we have taken comfort in defining ourselves through our social groups. But what happens when we only socialize with our chosen group, to the point that we lose the ability to connect to people who don't share our passions? What happens when our tribes merely confirm our world view, rather than expand it? We have always been a remarkably social species-our moods, ideas, and even our perceptions of reality synchronize without our conscious awareness. The advent of social media and smartphones has amplified these tendencies in ways that spell both promise and peril. Our hiveish natures benefit us in countless ways-combatting the mental and physical costs of loneliness, connecting us with collaborators and supporters, and exposing us to entertainment and information beyond what we can find in our literal backyards. But of course, there are also looming risks-echo chambers, political polarization, and conspiracy theories that have already begun to have deadly consequences.
Subjects: Collective behavior.; Swarm intelligence; Group values (Sociology);
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Hivemind : the new science of tribalism in our divided world / by Cavanagh, Sarah Rose,author.(CARDINAL)803025;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-270) and index.Welcome to the hivemind -- Our fiction, ourselves -- Thresholds of inclusion -- Building us up and taking us down -- Selfing and othering -- The enemy inside -- Hacked -- Walking amygdalas -- Antidote -- Invisible leashes -- Bee lessons.Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind. Our views of the world are shaped by the stories told by our self-selected communities. Whether seeking out groups that share our tastes, our faith, our heritage, or other interests, since the dawn of time we have taken comfort in defining ourselves through our social groups. But what happens when we only socialize with our chosen group, to the point that we lose the ability to connect to people who don't share our passions? What happens when our tribes merely confirm our world view, rather than expand it? The advent of social media and smartphones has amplified these tendencies in ways that spell both promise and peril. Our hive-ish natures benefit us in countless ways--combatting the mental and physical costs of loneliness, connecting us with collaborators and supporters, and exposing us to entertainment and information beyond what we can find in our literal backyards. But of course, there are also looming risks--echo chambers, political polarization, and conspiracy theories that have already begun to have deadly consequences. Leading a narrative journey from the site of the Charlottesville riots to the boardrooms of Facebook, considering such diverse topics as zombies, neuroscience, and honeybees, psychologist and emotion regulation specialist Sarah Rose Cavanagh leaves no stone unturned in her quest to understand how social technology is reshaping the way we socialize. It's not possible to turn back the clocks, and Cavanagh argues that there's no need to; instead, she presents a fully examined and thoughtful call to cut through our online tribalism, dial back our moral panic about screens and mental health, and shore up our sense of community.
Subjects: Collective behavior.; Swarm intelligence; Group values (Sociology);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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American patriots and the rituals of revolution / by Shaw, Peter,1936-(CARDINAL)153887;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Collective behavior.;
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The crowd in the early Middle Ages / by Bobrycki, Shane,1985-author;
Includes bibliographical references and indexThe Early Middle Ages : A World without Crowds? -- The Crowd as Historical Subject -- The Crowd Regime of the Early Middle Ages -- Sources and Structure -- 1. The Roman Legacy -- Crowds in Roman Antiquity -- The Crowd from the Republic to the Principate (c. 400 BCE-300 CE) -- The Crowd in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600) -- Scale -- Functions -- Ambivalence -- The End of the Roman Crowd Regime in the West -- The Legacy of Roman Crowds -- 2. Numbers -- Number and Scale -- Early Medieval Demography : Evidence, Causes, Trends -- Regional Heterogeneity -- Population Pools and Carrying Capacities -- Sizes of Gatherings -- Numbers and Crowds -- 3. Peasants and Other Non-Elites : Repertory and Resistance -- The Problem of Non-Elite Crowds -- Peasants: Far from the Madding Crowd? -- Horizontal and Vertical Coordination -- Spirituality and Recreation -- Resistance -- Repertory and Resistance -- 4. The Closed Crowd : Elite Venues and Occasions for Gathering -- Predictability, Hierarchy, Unity -- Religious Gatherings -- Gatherings in "Public" Life -- Intra-Elite Competition and Conflict : The Case of Tours -- The Solemn Assembly -- Ramifications of the Closed Crowd -- 5. Words -- Semantic History -- Crowds across Languages -- Blurring Distinctions : Populus -- Christianization: Contio -- Erosion of Negative Connotations : Turba -- Crowd Words Transformed -- 6. Representations -- Patterns of Representation -- Topoi, Type Scenes, and Their Sources -- Qualities of the Crowd in Early Medieval Discourse -- Crowds and Sanctity -- The Crowd as Witness -- Bad Crowds -- Epilogue : Into the Eleventh Century"Until now, almost all historians have seen the de-urbanized, de-populated early Middle Ages as a crowdless world. But crowds did not disappear in Europe between 500 and 1000, historian Shane Bobrycki shows. The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages is the first book-length study of crowds in post-Roman European history. After fifth- and sixth-century urban and demographic decline, European gatherings were smaller, less spontaneous, and easier for elites and rulers to control. But crowds remained central to the agrarian economy; they played a vital role in politics and religion. Assemblies, festivals, fairs, and the church's invisible multitude of saints ensured that collective behavior remained central to public life. Early medieval women and men sought to recreate and reimagine Rome's lost crowds. Bobrycki demonstrates that between inherited Christian values and new material constraints on gathering, elites abandoned old prejudices against mobs and rabbles while embracing the crowd's legitimacy, with lasting results for European institutions. Non-elites resisted authority by avoiding or repurposing expected collective behaviors. The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages argues that the history of early medieval crowds illuminates the transition from the ancient world to the Middle Ages. Early medieval communities inventively reimagined collective behaviors: taxation, in an age of weak governments, involved controlling seasonal crowds. Enduring religious and political practices, the book argues, had their origins in a forgotten early medieval crowd regime. In the medieval period, elites began to draw distinctions between "good" and "bad" crowds, with good crowds acting as a legitimizing force and bad crowds portrayed as unruly, often female mobs. In this sweeping analysis of European life in the Middle Ages, Bobrycki explores the world shaped by the early medieval crowd regime and encourages historians to rethink their understanding of collective behavior"--
Subjects: Crowds; Collective behavior;
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I am we : how crows come together to survive / by Booth, Leslie Barnard,author.; Finkeldey, Alexandra,illustrator.(CARDINAL)885264;
Includes bibliographical references."A riveting informational picture book that explores the beguiling mysteries of crow behavior. Gorgeous illustrations take us into a crow's environment and community, making this an incredible--and unforgettable--reading experience. Caw-Caaaaw! Crows are fascinating and resilient birds. What is the secret to their abundance and survival, especially throughout fall and winter seasons, when temperatures drop and crow-eating creatures lurk in the dark? I Am We unpacks these mysteries, exploring how and why crows roost together by the thousands and their reliance on cooperation and community. Sharing a home in our urbanized ecosystem, crows are the ideal subject for learning about how animals interact with the environment and with each other. With dazzling color illustrations and irresistibly engaging and educational text, this beautiful, bewitching book will delight readers throughout the spooky season and all year round." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Informational works; Animal defenses; Collective behavior in animals; Crows;
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