Human Collective Behaviors Vary Considerably With So-

There was more urgency and less mirth¨ (Beller, 60). This concept of the urgency in the movement of the crowd suggests chaos and disorder only furthering the acceptance of the tone being chaotic.

I curled up on the sofa in the corner of the room, attempting to get a temporary escape from the chaos. In front of me laid my shot of unfinished vodka and a mess of other party foods. The others, a dozen feet away from me, were screaming, wiggling and jumping around as if they just got out of jail. With nightclub music blasting in my ear, I murmured to myself: “why does this happen?”

Everyone belongs to a subculture and every subculture has their niche in society. To the untrained eye, mosh pits look like unruly fighting rings. The purpose of mosh pits, however, is not to hurt people, but rather to “release frustrations and celebrate music” (Clark par. 1). Mosh pits offer a place for people to express themselves in an appropriate manner and setting, which otherwise would not be considered fitting outside of the pit. In my course of studying the subculture of mosh pits, I grew to better understand their purpose and the emotions they give off.

The darkness is everywhere, the energy is flowing. That bass pedal thuds, the bass hits your chest. The flash of the strobe lights. The drums begin to blast, the guitars scream. The band is on the stage, the adrenaline fills the room. The crowd goes nuts, the music takes over, the mosh pits get brutal. The crowd surfers float above to the stage. The music is in everyone, the crowd moves as one, with every jump, with every pulse the metal runs through the veins.

In order for one to understand group dynamics, one must first define a subculture. Group dynamics underlie the world of subcultures which emerges when a group of people in similar circumstance cut themselves off from society (Bohm and Vogel, 2011). Human behaviors and cognitions are often driven by a larger systemic and interactive dynamics between individuals and influence (Bohm and Vogel, 2011). It is uncommon for personal thoughts, decisions, and actions to be executed in seclusion (Bohm and Vogel, 2011). I strongly agree that group dynamics play a major part in criminal behavior. When working in groups, it requires a different set of perceptual filters in order to make sense of how to survive in this underground world. Group dynamic allows

Human behaviorist’s have long studied changes in people’s behavior as it relates to obedience in authoritative relationships. Two of the most renowned obedience studies were conducted by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo, in which they each tested reactions to authority using important variables that were manipulated throughout their experiments. However, some psychologists, like Dina Baumrind, a psychologist for the Institute of Human Development, believe experiments that test humans impetuous reactions should not be conducted unless the subject is well-informed of the purpose. Baumrinds, “Review of Stanley Milgrams Experiments on Obedience” criticizes the accuracy of Milgrams study and further explores the emotional response those

must be found. Once they collide, a column of rising air is created with rotating winds.

pack crowd started to buzz like a hive. The noise of anticipation started to reverberate

Doris Lessing “Group Minds” explains that “when we’re in a group, we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find “like-minded” people.” (Lessing 5) Lessing stresses that people who have experienced a few groups, often observe their own behavior, they may agree that the hardest thing in life is to stand out against a group of one’s peers. (Lessing 9) Lessing’s article shows how an individual can lose their sense of self and objectivity that are affected by group pressures.

As a human race, we function off of our surroundings. In today’s society, social pressure is a conflict that people face daily. Whether it be a young adolescent facing peer pressure for the first time, or just feeling obligated to go on a vacation because all of your friends are going. Positive or negative, operating as a group is in our everyday lives. Doris Lessing, known as the best female novelist, has a strong opinion on the subject of individuality and our nature of acting as a group. We thrive to act as individuals because we are aware of our individual freedoms, yet we form groups and think as several individuals in unison, rather than one individual operating independently. Self-individuality is important and pressed upon in the world today, and I believe that although functioning off of others is not in its entirety a negative thing, that we should continue to press the importance of being independent.

n her article, What Happens When Newton’s Third Law is Broken; Lisa Zyga describes a break through in the physics of nonreciprocal interactions of micro particles. One of the impressive products of this research is that one can observe a mixture of two liquids, which are described to be in “detailed equilibrium”, whose respective micro-particles retain the temperature of their original liquid; copied from a paper published in Physical Review X, Alexei Ivlev, et al. Another example of nonreciprocal interactions of micro particles is in an experiment where researchers levitated charged micro particles above an electrode in a plasma chamber. In this study, the violation of Newton’s third law comes from the idea that two different kinds of charged

Does (do) the student (s) perceive a relationship between the behaviors and the consequences of the behavior? I believe that Naidhurva have a clear understanding between behavior and consequences. She realize that education is important and in order for her to continue her extracurricular activities , she need to excel in her education.

In order for any behaviour such as polygamy, to be classified as a sociobiological behaviour it must meet the following criteria:

“With regard to the subjective dimension of crowding, two measures are used to capture it in the literature. (i) How crowded people feel, and (ii) how crowded people rate sitting Factor analysis suggested that two crowding measures are conceptually different, where the feel crowd item (i.e., how crowded people feel) is associated with perceived density, constraint, distraction, and stress, while the environmental rating item (i.e., how crowded people rate seating) is loaded only with perceived density. The former is more sensitive to changes in physical density than the latter” (Zheng Li, 2013).

Latané, Williams and Harkins (1979) also experimented with crowds clapping and cheering and came to a similar conclusion. When the groups became larger people clapped and cheered much less than if they had been on their own.