The behavioral psychology of the crowd is being scientifically elucidated

ByJames Cridland

Personal space may be lost if you are inside the crowd and you may feel uncomfortable. Furthermore, when the crowd becomes excessive, there is a possibility that shouldering may occur, and in the worst case, there is even even death. Angola's football stadium in 2017, San Carlo Plaza in Italy, food aid in Morocco greatlyCrowd accidentOccurred. Although these accidents are very miserable, the scientists said that it was an accident that could be avoided altogether. Currently, he seems to consider a method to minimize the occurrence of crowd accident.

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University of SussexDr. John Drury, who specializes in crowd management of social psychology, says "the crowd is psychologically special like an individual." In fact, psychologists and disaster specialiststhe studyAccording to the emergency, group specific behavior seems to appear. For example, it happened on 7th July 2005London simultaneous bombing incidentAccording to the interview of the people victimized by the victims, it turned out that the crowds had a cooperative relationship, such as comforting each other, sharing water, giving first aid measures.

Also, it is important to know the "rule" that dominates the special crowd. In punk and metal live etc, audience bumps with each otherMoshIt happens everywhere. Although this group may not be visible from the outside, it is said that consideration is taken within the group so that fans are not stamped. Even if the person in charge of safety management looks at this trouble, I do not enter the stop, I understand that it is done based on certain rules.

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However, when experienced security guards who can not grasp the situation respond, there are cases that cause a crowd accident. It is a crowd accident in 1989Tragedy of HillsboroIs in Sheffield, EnglandHillsboro · StadiumOccurred. In the accident, 96 people were killed as a result of misdemeanor of security guards who did not have security experience at the same stadium, as they entered audiences beyond the capacity of the audience seats one after the other .

According to Dr. Drury, "A crowd accident is a rare disaster usually rarely happens except for human accidents and disasters, but despite that, despite this, the dangers are exaggerated too much in the media," the crowd danger It is important to not overestimate sex. Because of the media exaggeration, it is highly likely that if people are inside the crowd, people are panicking and the illusion of themselves is hurting themselves.

BUILO HATPOLD ENGINEERINGAccording to Mr. Shikanto Shama, "Since the actions taken by humans are so reasonable, they can be predicted easily, so how people move in space, what their behavior is like in the environment You can imagine how it will have such an impact. "

Mr. Shama's team is collecting various data that influences the behavior of the crowd, such as personal space and cultural preference trend from the state of the wind. And, using proprietary crowd simulation software based on these data, it is verifying whether overcrowding can be avoided in various scenarios.

According to Mr. Shama, "Our data may deviate from common sense ideas." For example, in a school in Newcastle, the corridor was thin, and there was a problem that it was difficult to move in the corridor every time the school bell rang. Although it seems that the school was considering a plan to widen the corridor even if construction cost is applied, the conclusion that Mr. Shama's team issued was "It is enough to abolish the school's chime."

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When I adopted the method to actually abolish the chime, it is said that congestion in the corridor was resolved perfectly. By leaving the school's chime, we decided to end the lesson time at the discretion of the teacher, and the timing when the students came out from each classroom became disjointed. As a result, it seems that the movement became smooth as the students did not gather at the same time in the hall all together.

As for the modeling of the crowd, there are opinions that point to be considered yet, and it is expected that the model of the crowd will further advance someday in the future. Also, as technology to understand collective psychology is also increasing, it is expected that the number of future crowd accidents will decrease.