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Data transparency and accountability: Covid 19
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Collective Psychological Empowerment as a Model of Social Change: Researching Crowds and Power
The issue of psychological empowerment in crowd events has important implications for both theory and practice. Theoretically, the issue throws light on both intergroup conflict and the nature and functions of social identity. Practically, empowerment in collective events can feed into societal change. The study of empowerment therefore tells us something about how the forces pressing for such change might succeed or fail.
What a Thai cave and Manchester United fans tell us about who 'we' are
Millenia ago, Plato used his allegory of the cave as a reflection on truth and knowledge. The way that the world looks on the inside is rudely disabused on the outside.
Is everyone Irish on St Patrick's Day? Divergent expectations and experiences of collective self‐objectification at a multicultural parade
Original Article Abstract We examine experiences of collective self-objectification (CSO) (or its failure) among participants in a ‘multicultural’ St Patrick's Day parade. A two-stage interview study was carried out in which 10 parade participants (five each from ethnic majority and minority groups) were interviewed before and after the event.
The Nature of Collective Resilience: Survivor Reactions to the 2005 London Bombings
Accounts from over 90 survivors and 56 witnesses of the 2005 London bombings were analysed to determine the relative prevalence of mass behaviors associated with either psychosocial vulnerability (e.g. 'selfishness', mass panic) or collective resilience (e.g. help, unity). 'Selfish' behaviors were found to be rare; mutual helping was more common.
Everyone for Themselves? A Comparative Study of Crowd Solidarity Among Emergency Survivors
... They assert that, when people in a crowd experience an emergency, their perceptions become less accurate, causing fear to become exaggerated, which leads to irrational and competitive behaviour [8]. In contrast, recent research on the psychology of crowd behaviour in terrorist attacks and other mass casualty incidents (MCIs) has developed the notion that crowds behave more cooperatively than is assumed by earlier irrationalist models [6,9,10].
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