Cox et al. in 2006 (Cox, 2006) concluded that the perception of crowding in passenger rail is

In this image, the people display a busy, business like image. The affect display can be displayed through their posture, and by putting little expression on their faces. It is almost as if it is a hostile rush to get where they’re going.

The question that I intend to study is: How do shy people react in a crowd? (do they become aggressive/ assertive as per mob psychology, or shrink as per their personality)? There are various theories regarding the mode of behavior in a crowd. Some, such as Freud, posit that people' behavior changes in a crowd and they become more restless and less individualistic. Mob theory, in fact, is born form this which asserts that crowds are the source of volatile conduct where diverse people gang together for a particular cause. Minds merge and each person's enthusiasm becomes increased as a result. On the other hand, you have the Convergence theory that posits that the cause is born beforehand and that people join the crowd in order to put their cause into practice. The crowd, in other words, enables them to accomplish their objective and it makes them more enthusiastic and entrenched in their mission. Social psychologists leBon (1895) and Zimbardo (1969) see the crowd as an instigator of individuation. Stimuli such as mergence into a larger whole, the rush of the environment, the pressure of the crowd, the sensory overload and so forth blur mental input and causes a deindivdualistic individual to appear. One thing that is remarkable about all of these theories is that they tend to generalize assuming categorical behavior to all individuals and providing the aspect of 'crowd' with anthropomorphic qualities. Indeed, Schweingruber and Wohlstein (PsyBlog.com) point out that crowd

I experimented with this three times when I was at the Dobbs University Commons, more commonly known as the DUC cafeteria where many Emory students would eat throughout the day. The social norm in this environment was much like any other eating establishment: people sat with others that they knew close enough to open their personal space to them. If they did not see anyone that they recognized, then they tended to sit by themselves. I broke this social norm by sitting with three different types of people that I did not know, two of those strangers that I voluntarily sat with as part of my experiment and the third as an accidental occurrence where I was the victim that had my so-called personal space violated. The three individuals for my experiment

During rush hour on the morning of March 11, 2004, the Atocha train station in Madrid, Spain, was very busy. People

In his article ‘Making Trains Run on Time’ (Time Magazine, 10 April, 2017, pp. 32-34), Josh Sanburn tells us about the problem of congested train traffic in Chicago. Sanburn says that costly delays have been seen elsewhere because of the problems in Chicago, as any trains travelling from coast to coast have to go through the city. Six of the seven biggest railroad companies use these railroads, with one thousand and three hundred trains traveling through the city a day.

Identify behavioral changes that result from the presence of others. Why does the presence of others produce changes in our level of performance or awareness?

For our Social Norm Project Caitlin Avery and I decided that we would get onto an elevator and press all of the buttons. We choose this experiment because we both are a little bit shy and felt that this experiment would be stepping out of our comfort zone without making either of us feel too uncomfortable. When we conducted this experiment we made sure to get on the elevator when there was a good crowd of people riding (around 10-15 people) and then the two of us pressed all of the buttons until they were all lit. As we rode the elevator we watched to see what the other passenger’s reactions were. Most people did in fact notice that we had pressed every button and had a puzzled expression on their face, but you could tell that they didn’t think much about it and went back to looking at their phone. I did notice a few people who had

Therefore, New York is represented as a very crowded city with a lot of things happening. Moreover, it seems an extremely loud city with people rushing everywhere and minding their own business.

Often, when people think of the functions of trains, they simply view them as modes of transportation. In

The bystander effect is associated with the phenomenon, which states that when a larger amount of people are present, the less likely people are to help a person in need of assistance. When an emergency occurs, people are more likely to help when there are little or no other people. A summary about this study as well as an explanation of the results and how the concept of situationism relates to the study will be discussed.

Where I received the greatest reactions was at a St. Louis Blues hockey game. When entering the Scottrade Center before a game with thousands of other hockey fans, it becomes extremely crowed. At concerts, bars, or sporting events people should expect others to invade their personal space, but some still cannot tolerate the close proximity of others. I was forced to stand close to others as we waited for our turn to go through the turnstile. I figured this would be a good time to take it one step further. While I was standing so close to invade a person’s personal space, they could definitely feel me breathing on them. The reaction I received was different depending on who the person was. When I would get a little too close to a middle-aged women, they would grab their purses a little tighter or hold their child closer to them. The closer the area, the more likely people were to protect themselves and their possessions. After being in a constricted area, I went and stood in line at the concession stand to buy a soda. I stood very close to a middle aged man. He did not react at all, not even a flinch.

82 “Solitude in Public”: when you are in public (e.g., on stage) but have a small circle of attention and feel alone within it.

People in New York use the subway daily as their regular transportation and it is cheap, easy to get ride, saves time, no traffic jam also. Moreover, we can meet new people at a same time from different countries and who live in New York City also. Many travelers and passengers share different family backgrounds, are differently dressed according to their culture and religion. As a result, we can build a picture of their living style inside the subway. We can see people are using their individual languages and some are showing

Diffusion of responsibility is a phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to take action against distress or feel the need to be of assistance within the presence of a crowd. When an individual is in a large group, they may feel it isn’t their own responsibility to impose because it is also shared by other onlookers. Diffusion of responsibility also goes hand in hand with the by standard effect in which goes in depth of the social stigma of the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help an individual in distress.

In cities, we often hear people complain about overcrowdedness, especially around public spaces. But, what do people mean when they say, “It is ridiculous how overcrowded this school is!”? The word is defined as, “Overcrowding occurs when there is insufficient seating