Crowds, obedience and the psychology of group behavior, with Stephen Reicher, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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The Cognitive Shifts That Happen in Crowds
When you're in a crowd, and when people see each other as part of a shared identity, then people cease being other. And so you see all sorts of shifts towards intimacy. People trust each other more, people help each other more; share things they share sandwiches,. They share goods in ways that they wouldn't other eyes do so. We've got people to smell sweaty t-shirts. When it's the in-group t-shirt, I won't exactly say you like it, but you're much more casual about it. You kind of sniff it for a bit, stroll over, take it. The loss of disgust is one of many dimensions which allows people to come together
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