Adding a psychological dimension to mass gatherings medicine

Mass gatherings pose distinctive challenges for medicine. One neglected aspect of this is that the behaviour of people participating in such events is different from the behaviour they exhibit in their everyday lives. This paper seeks to describe a social psychological perspective on the processes s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nick Hopkins, Stephen Reicher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-06-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971215002994