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AIM OF EXERCISE: to examine some of the determinants of crowd panic behaviour; to see how far it is possible to set up in the laboratory a meaningful experimental analogue of a large-scale social phenomenon.
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Gilmour, R. (1982). Co-operation and competition in groups: simulation of crowd panic. In: Breakwell, G.M., Foot, H., Gilmour, R. (eds) Social Psychology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16794-4_14
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