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Explaining effervescence: Investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowds
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:52 authored by Nick Hopkins, Stephen D. Reicher, Sammyh S. Khan, Shruti Tewari, Narayanan Srinivasan, Clifford StevensonWe investigated the intensely positive emotional experiences arising from participation in a large-scale
collective event. We predicted such experiences arise when those attending a collective event are (1)able to enact their valued collective identity and (2) experience close relations with other participants. In turn, we predicted both of these to be more likely when participants perceived crowd members to share a common collective identity. We investigated these predictions in a survey of pilgrims (N =
416) attending a month-long Hindu pilgrimage festival in north India. We found participants’ perceptions of a shared identity amongst crowd members had an indirect effect on their positive experience at the event through (1) increasing participants’ sense that they were able to enact their collective identity and (2) increasing the sense of intimacy with other crowd members. We discuss the implications of these data for how crowd emotion should be conceptualised
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30Issue number
1Page range
20-32Publication title
Cognition and EmotionISSN
1464-0600External DOI
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Taylor & FrancisFile version
- Published version
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- eng
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2016-12-05Legacy creation date
2016-11-17Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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