On the Herd Behaviour of University Students Based on the Studies of Social Psychology

DOI

10.2991/icemct-17.2017.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

herd behavior, group action, social psychology

Abstract

The herd behavior of university students is a common phenomenon of social psychology in university campus. This paper analyzes the concept and nature of university students' conformity behavior and summarizes the four common kinds of herd behavior, including learning herd behavior, occupation herd behavior, spending herd behavior and love herd behavior. The psychological reasons for the herd behavior of university students lie in the inheritance of traditional culture, incitement of mass media and the characteristics of university students. We should make efforts to learn the psychological reasons for the herd behavior to guide university students to think independent.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chunlin Li
AU  - Weixi Zeng
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - On the Herd Behaviour of University Students Based on the Studies of Social Psychology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 368
EP  - 372
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemct-17.2017.83
DO  - 10.2991/icemct-17.2017.83
ID  - Li2017/05
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