A group is extraordinarily credulous and open to influence, it has no critical faculty, and the improbable does not exist for it. It thinks in images, which call one another up by association (just as they arise with individuals in states of free imagination), and whose agreement with reality is never checked by any reasonable function [Instanz]. [11] The feelings of a group are always very simple and very exaggerated. So that a group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. [12] It goes directly to extremes; if a suspicion is expressed, it is instantly changed into an incontrovertible certainty;
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