Mob Mentality Analysis

After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mobs can get out of control. For example, Edmonds says “It takes one act of violence to whip the crowd into a fury.” This shows that it can take just one action for a group of people to become violent. Being in a group can destroy people’s motives and making them do things that they never thought that they would do. This clearly shows that being in a mob can get out of control from the actions of the people in the group. In an article by S.E. Smith they state (referring to mob mentality) “ It is often used in a negative sense, because the term “mob” typically conjures up an image of an aggressive, chaotic group of people.” This means that the word mob is typically associated
with the terms chaotic, aggressive, and sometimes violent. Certainly, mobs can get out of control by what I have read and learned from the authors.