Sustained mass behaviour change is needed to tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic, but many
of the required changes run contrary to existing social norms (eg, physical closeness with in …

Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive
processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained …

The role of data-driven approaches in studies of crowd behaviour has received an
unprecedented recognition in recent years. As a result, the size of the empirical crowd …

A ubiquitous type of collective behavior and decision-making is the coordinated motion of
bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds. Collective decisions to move in the same …

In this paper, we invite psychologists to reflect on and recognize how knowledge is
produced in the field of social psychology. Engaging with the work of decolonial, liberation …

This article reviews the behavioural risks and possible mitigations for re-opening large
venues for sports and music events when Covid-19 infection rates and hospitalizations …

Environmental psychologists have established multiple psychological benefits of interaction
with natural, compared to urban, environments on emotion, cognition, and attention. Yet …

This article presents an interdisciplinary study of physical and social psychological effects on
crowd dynamics based on a series of bottleneck experiments. Bottlenecks are of particular …

Highlights•Experiences of collective action can lead to psychological changes which are
sustained by group support and communication.•Riots can spread via shared identity among …

Collective behavior is a widespread and important phenomenon among human society,
biological populations, swarm robots and multi-agents. The mathematical model shows that …