Explaining effervescence: Investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowds

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-32

  Hopkins, Nick ^a   Reicher, Stephen D ^b   Khan, Sammyh S ^a,b,e   Tewari, Shruti ^c   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^c   Stevenson, Clifford ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective self realisation; Crowds; Effervescence; Positive emotion; Shared identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CASTE; COGNITION; COLLECTIVE SELF REALIZATION; CONSENSUS; CROWDING (AREA); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EFFERVESCENCE; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INDIA; INTIMACY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MASS BEHAVIOR; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PILGRIM; POSITIVE EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SHARED IDENTITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; AGED; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION;

AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MASS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84946487220     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1015969     Document Type: Article

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