Collective phenomena in crowds — Where pedestrian dynamics need social psychology
Experiments at entrances to concert reveal significant influence of the spatial layout of barriers on the density in the crowd. Differentiating between collective phenomena, behavior and action the role of social norms is analysed.
Crowds in front of bottlenecks at entrances from the perspective of physics and social psychology
In an interdisciplinary study, physical and social psychological effects on crowd dynamics were investigated based on a bottleneck experiment with focus on the dynamics in front of the bottleneck.
