Mob Mentality In The Ox-Bow Incident

One of the major causes individuals get caught up in mob mentality is because people feel pressured to execute the corrupt actions in order to be accepted in society. Mob mentality can trigger certain emotions to participate in terrible public events in which causes harm to others. In the 1920’s, a horrible incident occurred in Duluth Minnesota which will always be remembered in history.

This is shown through the article by cbs news titled Fear Factor: How Herd Mentality Drives Us when they state, “ It's the idea that the individual members of a herd relate, behave in a similar fashion… If they act too much out of the norm, more often than not they're singled out and identified by a predator - and don't survive very long.” It is also shown through Time machine (1905): An Eyewitness Account of Lynching, and through To Kill A Mockingbird. These show that people within a mob-mentality act differently than normal, come up with their own twisted form of justice, and can be seen as temporarily insane for a short period of time. Many people allowed for the mobs to occur and that ended badly. So, if you allow a mob to happen, you are allowing insanity to

In the moral dilemma of “The magistrate and the threatening mob”, rioters have decided to take matters into their own hands and threaten a certain part of their community. Unless the magistrate brings forth someone for the crime that has taken place to upset the rioters. Therefore, the magistrate decided to blame the crime on an innocent man and have him tried and executed to ease the rioters’ behaviors.

Mob mentality and herd behavior have a negative behavior on people because of their individuality and rational thinking. People are influenced by others behaviors in a group. They can have negative and positive acts on people having individual thinking and it changes people's rational thinking. In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, the article “When Good people Do Bad Things” written by Ann Trafton, and the article “Why Do People Follow The Crowd” reported by ABC news, when someone does not want to share their own idea they do not feel like sharing as a groups. People can also act differently in a group because they do not want to be embarrassed with others.

Lastly, in the incident with Jonestown, showed the most extreme case of conformity and obedience. Jim Jones was a pastor at Peoples Temple, he was the leader of an interracial church. For its time, Jim Jones was pushing past race and ethnicity and introducing a new church that welcomed all people. Jones was the type of man that made people feel comfortable and at home; maybe that is why so many people followed him when he moved his temple across the county and then to Guyana. I think what made people interested in Jonestown was how the community seemed very close and simple, but who would have guessed that those 900 townspeople would all commit mass suicide just because one man said to. The question that remains is, why did so many people obey

Mob mentality can occur in any society. It can take place at any time, any day or any night. Mob mentality does not have a direct target. It will take over anyone, leaving them with no control over themselves. Mob mentality proves that under critical situations people will be selfish and follow others’ leads; however, the leads people usually follow are not the ones best for them. Due to large amounts of stress everyone carries, people do not think as clearly as they normally would. Those horrible leads that people choose to follow will eventually cause groups to become out of control. Violence usually ensues when within

“Mob mentality” refers to the idea that an individual reacts to a situation different from the way they would if they were in a group. The idea of “mob mentality” is displayed in the science fiction teleplay, “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”, where aliens have supposedly been living with humans and the crowd starts turning against each other to find out who it is. In a place where everyone is turning on each other it is hard to put out your view, so you go along with everyone else to stay safe. Similarly, in “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” when everyone starting doubting each other people find it safer to follow the crowd. For example, in the story when Les Goodman’s car starts by itself one person starts asking question and people follow by

In an article titled, Mob Mentality, it describes the mob mentality occurring during a football game, the author states, “In the name of a sporting event, in protest of a wrong call, the customers threw bottles, trash, whatever they could grip in the direction of the officials. Jaguars wide receiver Jimmy Smith later said the players feared for their lives (Shelton 1)”. Those who attended the game were out of control because of the influence of others around them. If one person disagrees with a call and throws things at officials, other people will think it is ok for them to take similar actions. When everyone started throwing random objects around, the players were terrified for their lives. The inappropriate behaviors of the crowd can cause a player to not want to play or a fan to not want to attend games because the all the fun has been sucked out. Without a positive behavior from everyone, the whole point of the game is lost. Another example of individuals being affected by the loss of others individuality is from an article titled, Mob Mentality Denies a Person a Right to a Fair Trial. The writing focuses on how a people were not given a fair trial due to mob mentality during the Salem Witch Trials. The article mentions, “These normal townspeople, in a moral frenzy, made yet more and ever-wild accusations, until mob action and then murder ... cold-blooded murder of many innocent people (Pyatt 1)”. This quote describes how the normal townspeople were caught up in a mob, and took wild actions until someone would end up dead. In this period of time, the townspeople murdered many individuals who were accused of witchcraft. Although these individuals were accused, they never received a fair trial, meaning the mobs of townspeople were going around and murdering innocent people who did not deserve it. All these actions could lead people to believe trials are

It is often affirmed that as the most dominant species on planet earth, human beings essentially rule the way in which our world has evolved; we have cognitive abilities that allow us to explore a multitude of complex variables, utilize logic, formulate a wide range of choices, and act out our decisions. However, even as highly logical creatures, humans have the propensity to be influenced by the choices of others or information presented to them, form groups of like-minded individuals, and participate in behaviors they would likely not have undertaken on their own. This particular behavior has been coined the “mob mentality and under it, people appear to become mindless automatons that lack any ability to act on their own thoughts. While there are perfect examples of mob mentalities doing good, such as the pivotal march on Washington during the Civil rights movement of the 1960’s, to something as simple as the yearly gathering of like-minded individuals at the Burning Man Festival, there are far more insidious examples such as the Holocaust, the Salem Witch trials, and Bacon’s Rebellion. In the realm of human behavior, each of these “events” is representational of what psychology defines as a mob or herd mentality and this group behavior has been an intrinsic quality of human civilizations throughout history. As such, this writer believes that Bacon’s Rebellion is a prime example of the negative implications mob mentalities are capable of generating. However the

When people are part of a group, they often start to deviate from their personalities, and tend to focus on the opinions and actions of the group. Groups can generate a sense of engaging energy, which can lead to behaviors that a person would not typically engage in if they were alone. People seem to believe that certain behaviors are acceptable when they are in groups that would otherwise not be acceptable if they were alone. Many people believe they cannot be held responsible for their actions when they are with a group because they see the

The author states that the outbreak of violence are a protest against the action that begins taking by the officers' neglect and incompetence to do what the public wants them to do if the officers don't do it private party take it upon themselves to correct what the believe as wrongdoing.

There were too many to count. What was only a few dozen hours earlier, became hundreds – no thousands. The Grant County sheriff was grossly outnumbered. As he stood on the porch leading to the jail, a few steps from the door to his home, the mob shuffled forward menacingly. The glare of the porch lamp likely darkened their faces, contrasting the men of the law with the people of the land. The on-lookers who watched from afar seemed to be closer every second. He presumably considered what to do as the mob grew before his eyes. What did he fail to account for? Had he made any mistakes? He had arrested the suspects of the shooting almost immediately after it happened. The prosecutor promised anyone who asked him that these boys would end up in

Far too often, one person shares an idea and then a domino effect takes place. Soon hundreds of people show up in a blurry rage. Mob mentality is a lot like cataracts. It clouds your vision and plays with your brain. Often times the person doesn’t fully understand what they are doing.

Every crime has a correlation with a theory in criminology. These theories explain why crime happens and some even go to the extent to come up with a solution to prevent or stop crime. This paper will explore how certain theories of criminology connect with the riots that happened in Ferguson, Missouri. Facts from different articles will be used to back up the theory. The theories will explain why rioters committed the crimes did. The paper will take the actions of the protestors and explain why they did what they did.

Mr. Kuykendall, you made an interesting assumption. How one thinks and influenced by others can be linked to several factors. Group dynamics acknowledge that individuals feel a sense of identity and self-esteem based on their membership in the group.