Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I disagree. I think that this was a classic "crowd effect" hysteria, and that the group behavior defines the setting in which individuals behave oddly. Maybe I see it this way because I was a college teacher for a long time, and I am applying my experiences at springtime classroom control. A student who acts inappropriately in front of the entire class will never act that way in front of an empty classroom. A person's perception of his audience and what he thinks they are thinking about him has a very strong effect on the way he thinks about himself. I'm sure that anybody who manages crowds for a living, be it saloon keeper, soccer referee, rock music promoter, protest organizer, or schoolteacher, would share this opinion.