Four Social Psychological Principles Of Clown Sighting

One of the major causes individuals get caught up in mob mentality is because people feel pressured to execute the corrupt actions in order to be accepted in society. Mob mentality can trigger certain emotions to participate in terrible public events in which causes harm to others. In the 1920’s, a horrible incident occurred in Duluth Minnesota which will always be remembered in history.

The next time I woke up I checked to make sure there wasn't any clowns and then checked again to be safe. Lucky for me there were none to be seen and I was relieved but still on edge from the whole encounter. My mom entered the room soon after I gathered all my nerves. She said that she thought that me seeing them and

Since the early ninety’s, a controversial Detroit rap group known as Insane Clown Posse have boasted about torturous murder methods and brutal killings within their music. Within hours of the release of their debut album The great malinko the Southern Baptist Convention criticized Disney for signing the group after proclaiming ICP was the devil’s music. Disney instantly dropped ICP from the label and removed their album from stores. Soon after, homicide reports started to spread with perpetrators proclaiming themselves as Juggalos (Insane Clown Posse fans). The FBI listed ICP as a dangerous gang, and, in many states, the group’s live shows were cancelled. Despite their music being banned in several countries and media outlets, this group continues to release music. Once a year the group and its fans come together for what’s known as The Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, Ohio. I thought to infiltrate the gathering to gain insight on this homicidal culture and hopefully develop a better understanding of how this all came to be.

Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

One way that people can become deindividuated is when they are part of a large group or a crowd. Deindividuation has been used to explain why people who are usually well-behaved can become violent during group interactions, for example, riots. The deindivduation theory complements the social learning theory as agrees that people change depending on role models.

When people are part of a group, they often start to deviate from their personalities, and tend to focus on the opinions and actions of the group. Groups can generate a sense of engaging energy, which can lead to behaviors that a person would not typically engage in if they were alone. People seem to believe that certain behaviors are acceptable when they are in groups that would otherwise not be acceptable if they were alone. Many people believe they cannot be held responsible for their actions when they are with a group because they see the

Critical preface: I choose to explore the hate crime problem in society. The reason I choose this topic is because hate crime is a brutal act against people, property, or society because of the group to which they are members or associate with. The hate crime is one of the most notorious crimes which leads to violent acts causing death and disaster. We need to stop these horrible acts and the solution would be to seek advice from an anti-hate organization which help us reduce hate crimes and factual information can then be spread to the society.

Hate crime in Canada, until recently, wasn’t covered frequently in the media. The most recent Statistics Canada report displayed a downward trend in hate crime (Allen, 2015, p. 4). Hate crime is still an issue that needs more attention; specifically right wing groups who are responsible for it. This paper will initially cover Canadian statistics regarding trends and figures about hate crime in Canada and then progress into discussion about how hate crime initially starts. Two theories that do a through job at explaining hate crime, in regards to right wing extremists groups, are social identity theory and strain theory. Afterwards, this paper will progress into a discussion about a specific type of hate group, Neo-Nazi’s in Canada; facts, ideologies,

“ An old dream with shiny new veneer. Its fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in the attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second - hand fantasias and antiquated hysteria.(www.GoodReads.com) This quote demonstrates that people will revive a destructive idea while painting it a different color in hopes others will follow. According Dictionary.com Mob Hysteria is defined as “ affects a group of people by behavior, or their own beliefs.” Mob Hysteria has presented itself in many forms through history. Researchers have attempted to understand the reason why individuals act out due to the actions, thoughts, and influences of others. Mob Hysteria demolishes an individual’s morals,

One student, Katelyn Bramble-Plotcher, had this to say about the threats made, “I think the whole clown situation was horrible and people need to think more of what they are doing. This caused many people fear and stress.”

“Along with the story line about crime, there will usually be a personal story line so viewers have a chance to know the cops as characters” (Class Notes, para 5). This is best shown when the detective is meeting up for a date with his girlfriend who ended up not being able to come. While he was waiting at the bar a guy tried to fight him. He later finds out it was his girlfriend’s ex-husband trying to cause friction between all of them. Elementary does not fit the blueprint for a typical cop show. The public is to believe that the clown was possibly harmful or bad when all along one of the City’s public water workers was behind contaminating the water and hiring someone to do so. While this was happening, the clown saw him. Therefore, he got murdered. It was a line of crimes that happened but, the bad guy does not show up till middle/towards the end of the show. This gives Elementary a combination of multiple genre types that are similar to different types of cop shows.

In the movie, “IT,” this can been seen when Bill was in the IT House with Richie and Eddie, he kept on telling them that what they were seeing (their greatest fear) was not real. Before Bill went into the IT house with Richie and Eddie, they did research about the clown and Bill discovered that Pennywise, is more likely to kill the kids who are afraid so he will project images that are not real. He comes up with the solution that whatever Pennywise shapeshifts into, it is not real so when they go into the IT house, he reminds then that whatever they see is not real. This is also quality information to the audience because it shows that audience that fears should not define and you should conquer your fear because if you let it haunt you forever, you will always be afraid of

Staff writer, Jennings Brown, in his article, “We All Need to Calm Down about the Clowns” claims that these clowns that are “terrorizing” or “injuring” other people are actually completely harmless. He supports his claim by first stating that back in early August in the town of Greenville, South Carolina, children claimed that there had been clowns try to lure them into the woods. These clowns come every year a few months before Halloween, they are only here to give people a scare.

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world

Moral panics take place when the media outlets take a fairly ordinary event and turn it extraordinary. Cohen states that in a moral panic the media identifies a particular group as a folk devil (1972). Essentially folk devils can be identified as a threat to society's values. This is see when the media presents the group in a negative stereotypical fashion and again exaggerate the scale of the problem. Moral panics have three distinguishing characteristics. In Bonn’s article, Who Benefits From Public Fear, he states that one characteristic of moral panic includes a focused attention, whether real or imagined, of certain individuals or groups that are transformed into what Cohen referred to as “folk devils” by the mass media (2015). Additionally there is a noticeable gap between the concern and object risk poses. Typically this threat is less than generally perceived because of how the media outlets represent the threat. The level of concern over time fluctuates greatly. The usual pattern begins with the introduction of the threat, followed by an increase rise and then peak in public concern, which then therefore, and regularly unexpectedly, dies down. _________________________