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I divided the information I found into four sections:

These are the reason why people will join the flash mob  activities:

    

     (1) Pressure

           What causes pressure:

                Not only when we encounter big events but also when we got to deal with a lot of trivial things will make us feel pressure. In addition, having conflicts with someone else is also one of the reasons bringing pressure. The psychological reactions caused by pressure makes people can't concentrate on the things they want to do. Also, it makes people's ability to organize thoughts become worse and worse. When they emerge these symptoms, they would like to find a way to release their pressure. Maybe participating a flash mob activity is a kind of way to make themselves happier.

     (2) How do they regard ''flash mob''?
                 When we are trying to understand new things, we usually have different ways to explain or organize them into meaningful categories. For the same things, some people may think they are scary, others may explicate them as unique or awesome. As a result, for flash mob, some people possibly regard it as a special doings because joining it will make them feel cool or comfortable; but for the others, they may think it as a kind of activity that disturbs social order.

     (3) What's the purpose to participate in a flash mob?

                  Those people may have some expectations after joining flash mob. Maybe they hope they can relax or adjust themselves into a better situation in life. Having different expectations can lead to many choices in life. Besides, our own value propositions will affect our actions. Though people may have the same expectation, they may react in different behaviors. The reason is that they don't have the same opinions about the behavior consequences, such as flash mobs, someone prefers to join it, but others don't. On the other hand, there might be no purpose for them to participate in flash mob. They may just want to try once to join this cool activity. Or maybe the reason is that social environment makes us want to take part in it. Other people's emotional support and caring can make our compression index higher. Reports say that having more connections with society won't make us easily to get stress-related illnesses because friends and family can give us a lot of support. By acceding flash mobs, those people maybe can find their own sense of belongings and increase their confidence levels.

      (4) A kind of psychological treatments:

                   Psychological treatments means to use the concepts of psychology to treat people. All the techniques are meant to use to help those whose moods are disorder and to change their actions, ideological activities and emotions so that they can develop some useful ways to deal with their pressure and to improve their communications with other people. Besides, some psychologists believe that changing their actions is better for patients to get more understandings about their subconscious motivation and conflicts. Thus, taking part in a flash mob may heal their psychological traumas.

*These are the findings from my research and my perspective on this topic.