Some of our other research on crowd behaviour
Collective action and crowd conflict
Drury, J., & Stott, C. (Eds.) (2012). Crowds in the 21st century: Perspectives from contemporary social science. London: Routledge.
Bankofideas, presentation on ‘The power of the crowd,’ January 2012. http://www.bankofideas.org.uk/events/event/the-power-of-the-crowd/
Evripidou, A., & Drury, J. (2012). Approaching collective empowerment in the Greek anti-austerity movement: An interview study. Paper given at 'Theory, action and impact in social protest: An interdisciplinary conference.' University of Kent, October.
Drury, J., & Stott, C. (2011). Contextualizing the crowd in contemporary social science. Contemporary Social Science, 6(3), 1-15. Doi:10.1080/21582041.2011.625626
Drury, J., Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2012). The psychology of collective action: Crowds and change. In B. Wagoner, E. Jensen, & J. Oldmeadow (Eds.), Culture and social change: Transforming society through the power of ideas. (pp. 19-38). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Stott, C., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2012). From ‘prejudice’ to collective action. In J. Dixon and M. Levine (Eds.), Beyond prejudice: Extending the social psychology of conflict, inequality and social change (pp. 286-303). Cambridge University Press.
Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2009). Collective psychological empowerment as a model of social change: Researching crowds and power. Journal of Social Issues, 65, 707-725. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2009.01622.x
Drury, J. (2009). From crowd events to social movements. EASP Medium Size Meeting On Collective Action and Social Change: Toward Integration and Innovation. Groningen, The Netherlands, July.
Barr, D., & Drury, J. (2009). Activist identity as a motivational resource: Dynamics of (dis)empowerment at the G8 direct actions, Gleneagles, 2005. Social Movement Studies, 8, 243–260. DOI: 10.1080/14742830903024333
Drury, J. (2008). Empowerment dynamics in collective action: Elaborating social identity and social change. 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology Opatija, Croatia, June.
Drury, J. (2007). Dynamics of (dis)empowerment in recent social movement participation: Collective identity and social change. Invited paper, Workshop on ‘Collective Identities, Mobilization, and Political Participation’, Free University of Brussells, Belgium, July.
Drury, J., Stott, C. & Farsides, T. (2003). The role of police perceptions and practices in the development of ‘public disorder’. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1480-1500.
Drury, J. (2002). ‘When the mobs are looking for witches to burn, nobody's safe’: Talking about the reactionary crowd. Discourse & Society, 13, 41-73.
Drury, J. & Stott, C. (2001). ‘Bias’ as a research strategy in participant observation: the case of intergroup conflict. Field Methods, 13, 47-67.
Drury, J. & Reicher, S. (2000). Collective action and psychological change: The emergence of new social identities. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 579-604.
Drury, J. & Reicher, S. (1999). The intergroup dynamics of collective empowerment: Substantiating the social identity model. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2, 381-402.
Reicher, S. (2001). The psychology of crowd dynamics. In M.A. Hogg and R.S. Tindale (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Group processes (pp. 182-208). Oxford: Blackwell.
Reicher, S. (1996a) Social identity and social change: Rethinking the context of social psychology. In W.P. Robinson (Ed.) Social groups and identities: Developing the legacy of Henri Tajfel (pp. 317-336). London: Butterworth.
Reicher, S. (1996b). ‘The Battle of Westminster’: Developing the social identity model of crowd behaviour in order to explain the initiation and development of collective conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 115-34.
Reicher, S., Spears, R. & Postmes, T. (1995). A social identity model of deindividuation phenomena. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (eds.), European Review of Social Psychology, 6, 161-98.
Reicher, S. & Levine, M. (1994a). Deindividuation, power relations between groups and the expression of social identity: The effects of visibility to the outgroup. British Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 145-63.
Reicher, S. & Levine, M. (1994b). On the consequences of deindividuation manipulations for the strategic communication of self: Identifiability and the presentation of social identity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 511-24.
Reicher, S.D. (1987). Crowd behaviour as social action. In J.C. Turner, M.A. Hogg, P.J. Oakes, S.D. Reicher & M.S. Wetherell, Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory (pp. 171-202). Oxford: Blackwell.
Reicher, S.D. (1984a). Social influence in the crowd: Attitudinal and behavioural effects of de-individuation in conditions of high and low group salience. British Journal of Social Psychology, 23, 341-350.
Reicher, S.D. (1984b). The St Pauls riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 14, 1-21.
Reicher, S.D. (1982). The determination of collective behaviour(pp. 41-83). In H. Tajfel (ed.), Social identity and intergroup relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stott, C. & Drury, J. (2000). Crowds, context and identity: Dynamic categorization processes in the ‘poll tax riot’. Human Relations, 53, 247-273.
Stott, C. & Reicher, S. (1998a). Crowd action as inter-group process: Introducing the police perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 509-529.
Stott, C. & Reicher, S. (1998b). How conflict escalates: The inter-group dynamics of collective football crowd ‘violence’. Sociology, 32, 353-77.
Barr, D. & Drury, J. (2007). ‘Activist’ identity as a motivational resource: Dynamics of (dis)empowerment at the G8 direct actions, Gleneagles, 2005. Twelfth annual ‘Alternative futures and popular protest’ conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, April.
Cocking, C. & Drury, J. (2004). Generalization of efficacy as a function of collective action and intergroup relations: Involvement in an anti-roads struggle. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 417-444.
Tosch, E. & Drury, J. (2007). The struggles of 'Isreality': Dynamic identity change and social movement participation among Israeli refusers. Twelfth annual ‘Alternative futures and popular protest’ conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, April.
Crowding and spatiality
Drury, J., & Novelli, D. (2011). Collective joy and the power of the crowd: A social psychological perspective on Melanie Manchot’s exhibition ‘Gathering’. Fabrica Gallery.
(Presentation version)
Novelli, D., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2010). Come together: Two studies concerning the impact of group relations on ‘personal space’. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 223–236 DOI:10.1348/014466609X449377
Novelli, D., Drury, J., Reicher, S. & Fenn, C. (2008). Behavioural and experiential variations in 'personal space': A self-categorization account. 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology Opatija, Croatia, June
Crowd modelling
Langston, P.A., Masling, R and Asmar, B.N. (2005). Crowd Dynamics Discrete Element Multi-Circle Model, Safety Science, 44, 395 – 417.
Singha, H., Arterb, R., Dodd, L., Langston, P., Lester, E., & Drury, J. (In press). Modelling Subgroup Behaviour in Crowd Dynamics DEM Simulation. Applied Mathematical Modelling.
Smith, A., James, C., Jones, R., Langston, P., Lester, E., & Drury, J. (2009). Modelling contra-flow in crowd dynamics DEM simulation. Safety Science, 395-404. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2008.05.006
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