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The population explosion has given birth to an explosion of a different sort—an enormous outpouring of research on the effects of crowding. Ten years ago there were virtually no papers by psychologists on this subject. Five or six years ago the first ones started appearing and since then there has been an exponential increase in their number. Surely the last few years have seen more papers on crowding than appeared in all the time before that. Now that this area has become a recognized topic for research and has attracted a great many psychologists, perhaps it is time to stop for a moment and see what we know now. This is particularly appropriate since it seems to me that we have passed the initial stage of research—laying out some of the problems and discovering the most obvious facts about crowding—and it is now time to enter the second phase, which should consist of studying the more complex issues and explaining some of the early results.
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Freedman, J.L. (1979). Current Status of Work on Crowding and Suggestions for Housing Design. In: Aiello, J.R., Baum, A. (eds) Residential Crowding and Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2967-1_12
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