Articles on Crowds

September 28, 2015

Here’s how to make the Hajj safer – by better understanding crowd psychology

Anne Templeton, University of Sussex and John Drury, University of Sussex

Computer models can help planners deal with large groups of people but we need better insight into the psychology of crowds to make them accurate.

Milad Haghani
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Clifford Stott
Professor of Social Psychology, Keele University
John Drury
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex
Andrea Connor
Acting Manager Policy and Research Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Prachandra Shakya
PhD Candidate, Bangor University
Dr Dave Steele
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Warwick, University of Warwick
Jay L. Zagorsky
Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
Emily Wakild
Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands, Boise State University
Mark Otten
Professor of Psychology, California State University, Northridge
Nusrat S. Chowdhury
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
Sally Breen
Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
Claudio Feliciani
Project Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
Mehdi Moussaid
Chercheur interdisciplinaire spécialisé dans le comportement des foules, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Roland Geraerts
Associate professor in Computer Science, Utrecht University