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Gustave Le Bon

Author, The Crowd (1895)

19th-century social psychologist and author of The Crowd, cited by Patrick Fagan for the argument that crowds are persuaded not by reasoned argument but by bold, repeated affirmation — a claim seeps into perceived truth simply through repetition.

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