1. Mob Mentality
Eng. 9

2. Mob Mentality When does a crowd become a mob? What changes?
Do you know any specific examples?

3. Breaking down the definition
Mob: a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
Mentality: way of thinking of a person or group.
So what is mob mentality?

4. The Psychology of Mob Mentality and Violence By Dr. Wendy James, PhD.
One dog may bark at you but it’s more likely that a pack will attack you. We are not exempt from that behavior because we are human and not canine. As evidenced by dogs operating in a pack environment, human society is based on group dynamics. As humans, we have instinctual responses that are exacerbated by group influences. What we might not do as individuals we may do as part of a group. People may lose control of their usual inhibitions, as their mentality becomes that of the group.

5. The Psychology of Mob Mentality and Violence By Dr. Wendy James, PhD.
A mob mentality phenomenon has occurred throughout human history, whether witch burning,
religious zealotry, political protests or reaction to perceived racial micro aggressions.

6. Historical Examples
Salem Witch Trials
The Holocaust
The Red Scare

7. Southern Lynch Mobs

8. Detroit Riots (1967)

9. Ferguson

10. Black Friday

14. These factors are regardless of location, culture, and class
Why Do Mobs Exist?
Fear
Anonymity
Tension (race, class, gender)
Change
Unemployment
Being a part of something
Restlessness
These factors are regardless of location, culture, and class

15. Chapter 15 Questions
How did this chapter illustrate Atticus’s advice to Scout to “climb in someone else’s skin and walk around in it”?
How did this chapter illustrate Atticus’s definition of “courage” in Chapter 11?
How is the motif of the mad dog revisited in this chapter?