A video of a park keeper removing flowers from a memorial is shared online. By midnight, 2,400 people posting from different towns have left hostile comments on the council's public page. Many repeat the same demand that the park keeper should be dismissed. Aisha initially writes a calm message asking what happened, but after reading the growing stream of angry comments, she replaces it with an insult. The park keeper says that the messages have left him frightened to go to work.
Explain how the source shows collective behaviour.
43 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.1 Key Concepts, covering 4.1.1 Conformity, 4.1.2 Collective and crowd behaviour, and 4.1.3 Obedience. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.