Crowds

thumb|A crowd of people returning from a show of fireworks spills into the street stopping traffic at the intersection of Fulton Street (Manhattan)|Fulton Street and Gold Street in [[Lower Manhattan]] thumb|A crowd watches the Battle of the Beach 2 – Far Rockaway Skatepark – September, 2019 thumb|A crowd leaves the Vienna (WMATA station)|Vienna station on the [[Washington Metro in 2006.]] A crowd is a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent. Examples are a demonstration, a sports event, or a looting (classified in sociology as an acting crowd). A crowd may also simply

biological phenomenon of a group of fish staying together for social reasons

mating behavior in certain animals

Unanimism (French: unanimisme) is a movement in French literature begun by Jules Romains in the early 1900s, with his first book, La vie unanime, published in 1904. It can be dated to a sudden conception Romains had in October 1903 of a 'communal spirit' or joint 'psychic life' in groups of people.

process in which a person is passed overhead from person to person (often during a concert), transferring the person from one part of the venue to another

Deindividuation is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups, although this is a matter of contention (see below). For the social psychologist, the level of analysis is the individual in the context of a social situation. As such, social psychologists emphasize the role of internal psychological processes. Other social scientists, such as sociologists, are more concerned with broad social, economic, political, and historical factors that influence events in a given society.

that a group is able to make far better decisions than any individual in the group

collective behaviour of a large number of (usually) self-propelled entities of similar size

coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals

model of movement

reception where local and national politicians meet with their constituents

investment strategy

matter behavior at system scale

technique used to count or estimate the number of people in a crowd