In the new era, China's market economy transformation, interest pattern adjustment, new problems, new contradictions increase, and frequent group incidents have gradually become a prominent problem affecting China's social stability. From the perspective of social psychology and the internal mechanism of human behavior, group events are the result of the psychological imbalance of the participants in the process of social change, which is transformed into group behavior under the influence of group psychology. It is a kind of "cluster behavior based on the catharsis of discontent" and an extreme external manifestation of the group's bad social psychology. This paper analyzes the deep-seated reasons for the occurrence of public emergencies, that is, the irrational factors of group psychology in public emergencies and the psychological motivations of irrational factors in public emergencies. On the basis of this, the paper analyzes the mechanism of group irrational psychology in public emergencies, and obtains the coping strategies of group irrational factors in public emergencies. The research results can correctly control and guide the irrational factors of group psychology in emergency events,  and the research results can also prevent the adverse consequences of irrational factors in sudden public mass incidents to a certain extent.

Yang Li. Research on irrational factors of group psychology in public emergencies. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 14: 59-64. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051410.

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