Crowd psychology, as documented by Gustave Le Bon and later by social identity theorists, shows individuals in mobs undergo deindividuation, significantly impairing autonomous deliberation.

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Autonomous deliberation(as the mental ability that crowds weaken): The ability to think through decisions independently and rationally, based on your own judgment rather than just following what others around you are doing.
Deindividuation(as the main concept explaining crowd behavior): A psychological state where people in a group lose their sense of individual identity and personal responsibility, making them more likely to do things they wouldn't normally do alone.
Gustave Le Bon(as a historical figure cited for crowd psychology research): A French psychologist from the late 1800s who was one of the first to study how people behave differently in groups or crowds than they do alone.
Social identity theorists(as modern researchers building on Le Bon's ideas): Psychologists and researchers who study how people's sense of who they are gets shaped by the groups they belong to, and how this affects their behavior.

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