Large crowds can exacerbate feelings of anxiety, especially at major events like festivals, concerts or the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. A Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist explains how to ...

When people gather in large groups, they often act in ways that are different from how they would behave individually. Crowds can be manipulated in many ways. Mob behavior, swarm behavior, and herding ...

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd. By Ari Daniel Every July, at the opening ceremony of the San ...

As one of the most anticipated concert events of the year in Chicago, with headliners like Tyler, the Creator, Luke Combs and Olivia Rodrigo, Lollapalooza can be seen as a safe haven — a place where ...

The collective motion of large crowds may be predictable past a certain density of people in a given area, according to a study published in Nature. The findings, based on four years of observations ...

In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly ...