<P><FONT color=#800080>Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs And Actions (World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A) </FONT></P>

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<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Publisher:</FONT></STRONG>   World Scientific Publishing Company
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Number Of Pages:</FONT></STRONG>   264
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Publication Date:</FONT></STRONG>   2005-05
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Sales Rank:</FONT></STRONG>   1837307
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>ISBN / ASIN:</FONT></STRONG>   9812562869
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>EAN:</FONT></STRONG>   9789812562869
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Binding:</FONT></STRONG>   Hardcover
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Manufacturer:</FONT></STRONG>   World Scientific Publishing Company
<LI><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Studio:</FONT></STRONG>   World Scientific Publishing Company
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<P><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#16387c size=3>Book Description: </FONT></STRONG></P>
<P>A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. This book presents unique results of computational studies on cognitive and affective space-time processes in large-scale collectives of abstract agents being far from mental equilibrium. Computational experiments demonstrate that the irrational and nonsensical behavior of individual entities of crowd-mind results in complex, rich and non-trivial spatio-temporal dynamics of the agent collectives. Mathematical methods employ theory and techniques of cellular-automata and lattice swarms, applied algebra, theory of finite automata and Markov chains, and elementary differential equations.</P> <BR>