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[a] For a person in a crowd a signal of danger, and a warning to get out of the crowd if possible, is the sensation of being touched on all four sides. A later, more serious, warning is when one feels shock waves travelling through the crowd, due to people at the back pushing forward against people at the front with nowhere to go. [21]
The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event. At the Hillsborough soccer stadium in England, a human crush ...
When a crowd has to wait a long time before something happens, this crowd can get bored or annoyed. A possible explanation behind this is that the crowd gets the feeling that the situation is a big act, which leads to increased frustrations. They may wonder whether the person really wants to commit suicide or he is just in it to get some publicity.
When an Army veteran “hell-bent” on creating carnage rammed a 6,000-pound pickup truck into a crowd of revelers, the massacre in New Orleans followed a disturbing trend – assailants using ...
Crowd manipulation is the intentional or unwitting use of ... Sociological propaganda is a phenomenon where a society seeks to integrate the maximum number of ...
Emergency services at the scene on Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Jan. 1, 2025, killing at least 14 people. / Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.
Fraser and Colman stated that bystander apathy, deindividuation, conformity and group polarization were extenuating factors in the killing of the four strike breakers. They explained that deindividuation may affect group members' ability to realize that they are still accountable for their individual actions even when with a group.
Shortly before 8 p.m. on November 11, Fan drove his car into the crowd, in a rage caused by his failed marriage and what he saw as an unfair divorce settlement, the court concluded.