Therapeutic approaches to health and wellbeing have traditionally assumed that meaningful
activity or occupation contributes to health and quality of life. Within social psychology …

Crowd violence is a regular feature of spectator sports around the world. Contemporary
research recognizes the diversity and complexity of this violence, but serious …

Accumulated evidence demonstrates the centrality of social psychology to the behavior of
members of the public as immediate responders in emergencies. Such public behavior is a …

Policy makers can use four different modes of governance:'hierarchy','markets','networks'
and 'persuasion'. In this article, it is argued that 'nudging'represents a distinct (fifth) mode of …

Half a century of research on bystander behavior concludes that individuals are less likely to
intervene during an emergency when in the presence of others than when alone. By …

Social identity research was pioneered as a distinctive theoretical approach to the analysis
of intergroup relations but over the last two decades it has increasingly been used to shed …

Procedural justice theory (PJT) is now a widely utilised theoretical perspective in policing
research that acknowledges the centrality of police 'fairness'. Despite its widespread …

In our everyday lives, we rely on routines that make tasks and interactions easier and
provide a sense of order--routines of greeting each other, getting to work, organizing the …

This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd
Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and …

This briefing is divided into three parts. First, we outline the factors which lead to incidents of
collective disorder (or riots). Secondly, we consider how the overall response to the …