| Term | Definition |
| Le Bon | Wrote about 'Mob Violence' |
| Zimbardo | Electric shock and prison study |
| Mullen | Real world evidence - crowd baiting |
| Festinger | States what happens to individuals when part of a crowd |
| Deindividuation | When people become less aware of themselves as individuals, they tend to become more impulsive and less rational, and therefore more prone to aggressive behaviour. |
| Deindividuation | People become less aware of themselves and are more prone to agressive behaviour |
| Zimbardo | Case study for Deindividuation |
| Zimbardo | Prison study |
| Crowd baiting | real world evidence |
| Less aware of self as individual | prone to be more agressive |
| deindividuation | the loss of self awareness in a group situation that foster arousal and anonymity |
| social norms | expected behaviour in socety that encourage certain behaviours/make people refrain from acting in certain manner |
| Zimbardo | abandonned car in city and rural areas |
| Donnerstein and Wilson 1976 | noise increases likelyhood arousal and aggression |
| Freedman | crowding increases intensity of response from situation |