Crowdedness mediates the effect of social identification on positive emotion in a crowd: A survey of two crowd events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Novelli, David ^a   Drury, John ^b   Reicher, Stephen ^c   Stott, Clifford ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; CROWDING (AREA); EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROWDING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SPACE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893180295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078983     Document Type: Article

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