Football and mass psychology

One of the parties of football of the Mexican league that wake up passion in the fans is the one that takes place every season between Cougars and the America . On Sunday November 14 will be held another edition of this game that, historically, has been marked by extracancha clashes. Both hobbies have been characterized by maintaining rivalry Y hostility with respect to that of the opposing team, especially among them, this has often degenerated into pitched battles with unfavorable balances. It is in these that the batons, shielded in the anonymity that gives them the "mass factor ", take the opportunity to commit, in many cases, illegal.

 

Fortunately, in recent years, these confrontations have diminished, but the fear that they arise again is always latent.

 

While the hobby a specific sport or team is not bad, when it reaches dyes of fanaticism , reinforced with a loss of identity that promotes mass, can result dangerous , not only in the individual but in the collective. Therefore, it is worth doing an analysis of this psychological behavior and what causes .

 

First of all the massified individual he acquires a collective soul for which he thinks and feels differently than if he did isolated way .

The massification of the individual


 

Dough: provisional entity that consists of heterogeneous elements that have been united among themselves during a certain period; like the cells of the organism that form a new being by their union that has very different properties than each isolated cell.

 

The mass stops working peculiarity of each individual, while the racial unconscious , which is uniform in all individuals, emerges. The heterogeneous becomes homogeneous . Appears a average character in the individuals of the mass with new properties:


  • In the mass the individual acquires a feeling of invincible power (because they are many).

  • The individual responsibility the man in the mass is anonymous.

  • In the mass you can externalize your unconscious instinctual motions of its provision that represses isolated, since the moral conscience whose core is social anguish.

  • It is contagious feelings Y acts . Personal interest is postponed for that of the mass. The contagion makes special traits in the masses externalize and the East .

  • And the most important: Suggestionability that causes particular characteristics to the individual in the mass. One of its effects is contagion. This explains the difference between the characteristics of the isolated man and the mass man.

Enjoy your favorite sport , be passionate, but be careful since you can fall into this behavior.

 

Source: RRPPNet


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