(Economics); MBA; MS (Psychotherapy & Counselling); PhD Scholar (IIT Bombay) Associate Professor H. K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai © 2014. Prof Roy‚ H.K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai. All Rights Reserved. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS by JAMES SUROWIECKI ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 306 PP | Soft Cover US $ 14.95 2005 Watching the popular game show‚ Kaun Banegaa Crorepati (KBC) hosted by Big B on Sony Entertainment Television‚ I always wondered….. whenever
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Language We Need Nerds! Anti-intellectualism is a slaughter house that is easily seen‚ but near impossible to escape. How can you show the billions of Americans that love sports that paying millions to a single player on their favorite team isn’t going to cure cancer? How can you influence thousands of “high-up” jocks that society would fall without the very nerds being squashed beneath their feet? It could very well start with Leonid Fridman’s work entitled‚ “America Needs its Nerds.” Fridman develops
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Cowboys and Indians Summary The story takes place in the present time in New Mexico‚ and is about the narrator‚ a young girl/woman‚ and her rebellious cousin David. The story begins at the funeral of the narrator’s grandmother. The mourners are gathered at the grandmother’s house‚ and the narrator is helping her aunts serve coffee and pastry. David shows up‚ and rescues the narrator from suffocating at the funeral feast. They head of on his Ducati and drive around getting drinks at a bar‚ watching
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A STUDY OF THE CROWD MOVEMENT DURING INGRESS AND EGRESS OF THE STADIUM IN THE SPORT EVENT CASE STUDY: NATIONAL TENNIS STADIUM‚ JALAN DUTA Mohd Ridzuan Bin Mad Rosli Department of Urban and Regional Planning Asst. Prof. Dr. Syahriah Bachok Department of Urban and Regional Planning Asst. Prof. Dr. Mariana Mohamed Osman Department of Urban and Regional Planning ABSTRACT This research deals with the study of crowd movement (walking speed) during ingress and egress of the stadium during
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How might we best explain crowd behaviour? (2013 Exam Question) People are likely to act in bizarre ways in a crowd compared to as an individual. A crowd can be defined as a set of individuals who share a common social identification of themselves in terms of that crowd. Crowd members should also share common goals and act in a coherent member (Reicher‚ 2008). There have been extensive amounts of research into crowd psychology‚ investigating the apparent causes and reasons for such behaviour to
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The epigraph at the beginning of “The Man in the Crowd” brings up the interesting question of what it really means to be alone. While the actual definition of alone is “quite by oneself‚ unaccompanied‚ solitary‚” (“Alone”) the story‚ through the narrator’s thoughts and the observations of the nameless man in the crowd‚ can serve as a different perspective on being alone if applied beyond the situation in the tale. The epigraph says how terrible it is to never be alone‚ and the story serves as a metaphor
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CROWDS AND VIOLENCE Deindividuation: [“Individuation” coined by Jung: a process of individuation for development of personality] Historical Research: Le Bon (1890s) When individuals “descend” in a crowd‚ they become creatures of instinct‚ barbarians (Contagion theory‚ anonymity) Festinger (1952) Individuals who sat in dim light more likely to use bad language when discussing erotic material than individuals who were not. Zimbardo (1969) Stanford Prison Experiments: Individuals dressed
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The Misrepresentation of Nerds in the Media NERDS! Everyone remembers how nerds are represented in movies and TV. The person with the giant glasses‚ pimples‚ no friends and can quote every episode of Star Trek in Klingon. The 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds shows a group of people that fits these stereotypes. In this essay‚ I will show how the media has shown the several different types of stereotypes‚ but these are usually wrong. I will show that even if you are smart‚ or in a Science‚ Technology
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front of a big crowd and there is a lot of free space around you‚ so you move forward slightly because hey‚ why not? It’s a free space except that you have just started an Indiana jones’ technique of rolling a heavy bolder of sack. Those standing behind assume that since more space is being created ahead of them‚ they should move too. The whole crowd rolles ahead almost like a massive Persian rug sloping down steep hill… It’s this lack of invisibility that’s also responsible for the crowd stampeding
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