don't panic! correcting myths about the crowd

I am a social psychologist who specialises in the study of crowd behaviour. I am interested in all situations when people come together in a crowd, either to protest, go to a sports match or festival, or if they get caught up in a mass emergency. I set this blog up to redress what I saw was a negative bias in the Press against crowds in general. Hope you like it!

Saturday, 1 January 2022

Review of 2021

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  What a year 2021 was! When the COVID-19 pandemic first struck in early 2020, I remember joking that I might have to change my choice of ca...
Monday, 25 May 2020

COVID-19 lockdown- 'All in it together'?

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The news that Boris Johnson's aide Dominic Cummings broke lockdown restrictions to drive 260 miles from London to Durham when he and his...
Sunday, 15 March 2020

Coronavirus and Social Psychology

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The Coronavirus has become a global pandemic and taken its hold in most countries, particularly in Europe. As I write this there are now o...
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Sunday, 14 January 2018

Hawaii missile alert & 'panic'

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The residents of Hawaii recently suffered a nasty shock when human error resulted in an emergency text (issued via a  push alert  that is se...
Sunday, 26 November 2017

Crowd responses to Oxford Circus incident

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Londoners may well be breathing a collective sigh of relief after the evacuation of Oxford Circus tube station and subsequent lock-down of s...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

Parsons Green Tube attack

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London saw another apparent terrorist attack on Friday 15th September- this time at Parsons Green Tube station in South West London, with 29...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Notting Hill Carnival & collective support

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I was at the Notting Hill Carnival today, which was held this year in the shadow of the Grenfell Tower  fire  tragedy in June 2017. For thos...
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