Talk:Herding instinct

I've added a caption to the photo, to try to make it vaguely relevant to the article, but I think we'd do better with a photo of a crowd of humans. --194.73.130.132 16:16, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, crows of human often form because people go through the same streets at the same time of the day, not because then want to cuddle :)

By the way, isn't the term "herding instinct" also used for animals (that's what the photograph is meant to mean, of course) ? Rama 17:19, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

starbucks and planet hollywood?

i think those two references should be removed from this article and replaced with more general terms, such as "certain businesses". naming (irrelevant) names makes me question the neutrality of the article. not that i feel particularly neutral about either organization; but surely wikipedia should?

Furthermore, the statement isn't really correct. The way it stands now, it seems to imply that any irrational identity-based behavior can be attributed to the herding instinct, but that's not really the case. I have to imagine it's possible for individuals to have anti-Starbucks attitudes and behaviors because of something other than the fact that they identify with some anti-Starbucks crowd. Can't they just irrationally not like Starbucks?

Merge proposal

Reading over both of the articles, there's nothing here that is not addressed in the Herd behavior article, and besides the behavior article being easier to read, I'm having trouble telling the difference between the two. Comments anyone? -- DSGruss 19:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks DSGruss for making the merge. This discussion to merge the instinct article into the behavior article has been going on for over six months or so, and there is some part of that discussion over in Talk:Herd_behavior. I support the merge, but just haven't had the time to do it myself.

Now we can hope that some additional cleanup will occur in the Herd Behavior article. N2e 15:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)