Crowds and Identities: John Drury’s Research Group

Publications

For more recent publications, see https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p92858-john-drury/publications 
 

Neville, F. G., Drury, J., Reicher, S., Choudhury, S., Stott, C., Ball, R., & Richardson, D. C. (2020). Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The HivePloS ONE 15(10): e0241227. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0241227 

Neville, F., Novelli, D., Reicher, S., & Drury, J. (2020). Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowdsGroup Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1368430220936759

Drury, J. (2020). Gustave Le Bon’s “Psychologie des Foules”: A commentary and evaluation. In G. Le Bon (1895). Psychologie des Foules. Paris : La Société Enrick B. Editions

Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2020). Crowds and collective behaviour. In Oxford research encyclopedia: Psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.304

Ganz, G., Neville, F., Kassanjee, R., & Ward, C. L. (2020). Parental misperceptions of in-group norms for child disciplineJournal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2466

Drury, J. (2020). Recent developments in the psychology of crowds and collective behaviour. Current Opinion in Psychology, 35 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.02.005

Carter, H., Drury. J., & Amlôt, R. (2020). Recommendations for improving public engagement with pre-incident information materials for initial response to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) incident: a systematic review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101796

Kleinmeier, B., Koester, G., & Drury, J. (2020). Agent-based simulation of collective cooperation: From experiment to model. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17 (171). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0396

Neville, F., Novelli, D., Reicher, S., & Drury, J. (2020). Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowds. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1368430220936759

Cruyws, T., Stevens, M., Platow, M. J., Drury, J., Williams, E., Kelly, A. J., & Weekes, M. (2020). Risk-taking that signals trust increases social identitification. Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000417

Dixon, J., Elcheroth, G., Kerr, P., Drury, J., Albzour, M., Subasic, E., Durrheim, K., & Green, E. (2020). It’s not just ‘us’ versus ‘them’: Moving beyond binary perspectives on intergroup processes. European Review of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1738767

Drury, J., Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2020). Covid-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It’s probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology59, 686–693. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12393

Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Reicher, S., Neville, F., Bell, L., Biddlestone, M., Lovell, M., Choudhury, S., & Ryan, C. (2020). A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(3), 646-661. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2650

Elcheroth, G., & Drury, J. (2020). Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 703–713. DOI:10.1111/bjso.12403

Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. R., & Williams, R. (2020). Endurance or decline of emergent groups following a flood disaster: Implications for community resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101493

Van Bavel, J. J. et al. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0884-z

Templeton, A., Drury, J., Philippides, A. (2020). Placing large group relations into pedestrian dynamics: Psychological crowds in counterflow. Collective Dynamics 4, A23:1–22. DOI: 10.17815/CD.2019.23

Drury, J., Ball, R., Neville, F. Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2020). How crowd violence arises and how it spreads: A critical review of theory and evidence. In J. Ireland, C. Ireland, M. Lewis, and A. C. Lopez (Eds.). The handbook of collective violence: Current developments and understanding. Routledge.

Ball, R., Stott, C., Drury, J., Neville, F., Reicher, S., & Choudhury, S. (2019). Who controls the city? A micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011City, 23(4-5),483-504https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1685283

Alnabulsi, H., Drury, J., Vignoles, V., & Oogink, S. (2020). Understanding the impact of the Hajj: Explaining experiences of self-change at a religious mass gathering. European Journal of Social Psychology DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2623

Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. R., & Williams, R. (2019). What lies beyond social capital? The role of social psychology in building community resilience to climate change. Traumatology.

Carter, H., Drury, J., & Amlôt, R. (2020). Understanding the impact of responder management strategies on public experiences and behaviour during mass casualty decontamination. In H. Zhu & H. Maibach (Eds.) Skin decontamination – A comprehensive clinical research guide (pp. 199-210). Cham, IL: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24009-7_12

Saavedra, P., & Drury, J. (2019). Development and validation of a measurement scale for Subjective Political Openness: Including political context in the psychological analysis of collective action. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(2), 665–694. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i2.1030

Drury, J., Carter, H., Cocking, C., Ntontis, E., Tekin Guven, S., & Amlôt, R. (2019). Facilitating collective psychosocial resilience in the public in emergencies: Twelve recommendations based on the social identity approach. Frontiers in Public Health, 7 (141) doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00141

Adrian, J. et al. (2019). Glossary for research on human crowd dynamics. Collective Dynamics, 4(A19),1–13.

Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2019). How participation in collective action changes relationships, behaviours and beliefs: An ethnographic interview study of the role of inter and intra-group processes. Journal of Social & Political Psychology, 7(1), 76–99, doi:10.5964/jspp.v7i1.903

Alfadhli, K., Güler, M. Cakal, H., & Drury, J. (2019). The role of emergent shared social identity in psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries. International Review of Social Psychology, 32(1), 2. DOI: 10.5334/irsp.176 

Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. R., & Williams, R. (2019). Community resilience and flooding in UK guidance: A critical review of concepts, definitions, and their implicationsJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 27(1) 2-13. DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.12223

Bernales, M., Repetto, P., McIntyre, A., Vasquez, A., Drury, J., Sullivan, G., & Castañeda, J. (2019). Experiences and perceptions of natural hazards among international migrants living in Valparaiso, Chile. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.11.010

Aitken, P., Drury, J., & Williams, R. (2019). Relationships, teams and long-termism. In R. Williams, S. Bailey, B. Kamaldeep, S. A. Haslam, C. Haslam, V. Kemp, & D. Maughan (Eds). Social scaffolding: Applying the lessons of contemporary social science to health, public mental health and healthcare. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Drury, J. (2019). The nature of adolescence and its family, societal, community, cultural, and developmental challenges. In I. Crome & R. Williams (Eds.), Substance misuse and young people. London: CRC press.

Drury, J., Alnabulsi, H., & Carter, H. (2019). Crowds and cooperation. In R. Williams, S. Bailey, B. Kamaldeep, S. A. Haslam, C. Haslam, V. Kemp, & D. Maughan (Eds). Social Scaffolding: Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health, Public Mental Health and Healthcare. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Drury, J., & Alfadhli, K. (2019). Social identity, emergencies and disasters. In R. Williams, S. Bailey, B. Kamaldeep, S. A. Haslam, C. Haslam, V. Kemp, & D. Maughan (Eds). Social scaffolding: Applying the lessons of contemporary social science to health, public mental health and healthcare. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Drury, J., Healing, T., Williams, R., Kemp, V., & Haslam, C. (2019). Agency as a source of recovery and creativity. In R. Williams, S. Bailey, B. Kamaldeep, S. A. Haslam, C. Haslam, V. Kemp, & D. Maughan (Eds). Social scaffolding: Applying the lessons of contemporary social science to health, public mental health and healthcare. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Templeton, A., Drury, J., Philippides, A. (2018). Walking together: Behavioural signatures of psychological crowds. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180172

Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2018). How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(4), 855-877. DOI:10.1111/bjso.12270

Drury, J. (2018). The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review. European Review of Social Psychology 29(1), 38-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2018.1471948

Alnabulsi, H., Drury, J., & Templeton, A. (2018). Predicting collective behaviour at the Hajj: Place, space, and the process of cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  373: 20170240. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017. 0240

Alfadhli, K., & Drury, J. (2018). A typology of secondary stressors among refugees of conflict in the Middle East: The case of Syrian refugees in Jordan. PLoS Currents Disasters Edition 1. doi:10.1371/currents.dis.4bd3e6437bff47b33ddb9f73cb72f3d

Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2018). The conservative crowd? How participation in collective events transforms participants’ understandings of collective action. In B. Wagoner, F. Moghaddam, & J. Valsiner (Eds.), From rage to revolution: Models of dramatic social change (pp. 11-28). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Alfadhli, K., & Drury, J. (2018). The role of shared social identity in mutual support among refugees of conflict: An ethnographic study of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology DOI: 10.1002/casp.2346

Stott C., Ball, R., Drury, J., Neville, F., Reicher, S., Boardman, A., & Choudhury, S. (2018). The evolving normative dimensions of ‘riot’: Toward an elaborated social identity explanation. European Journal of Social Psychology doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2376

Carter, H., Drury, J., & Amlôt, R. (2018). Social identity and intergroup relationships in the management of crowds during mass emergencies and disasters: Recommendations for emergency planners and responders. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. doi:10.1093/police/pay013

Jiménez-Moya, G., Miranda, D., González, R., Drury, J., & Saavedra, P. (2018). When non-activists care: Group efficacy mediates the effect of social identification and social change beliefs on the legitimacy of collective action. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1368430217751631

Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. R., & Williams, R. (2018). Emergent social identities in floods: Implications for community psychosocial resilience. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 28(1) 3–14. DOI: 10.1002/casp.2329

Drury, J. (2017). Afterword: The poll tax riot. In R. Page (Ed.), Protest! Stories of Resistance (pp. 422-427). Manchester: Comma Press.

Drury, J., & Zagefka, H. (2017). Editorial. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 1-3. DOI:10.1111/bjso.12184

Vezzali, L., Andrighetto, L., Drury, J., Di Bernardo, G. A., & Cadamuro, A. (2017). In the aftermath of natural disasters: Fostering helping toward outgroup victims. In H. Zagefka & E. van Leeuwen (Eds.), Intergroup helping: The positive side of intergroup behaviour (pp. 305-330). New York: Springer.

Seitz, M., Templeton, A., Drury, J., Koester, G., & Philippides, A. (2017). Parsimony and reductionism: How can crowd psychology be introduced to computer simulation? Review of General Psychology, 21(1), 95-102. doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000092

Shayegh, J., Drury, J., & Stevenson, C. (2017). Listen to the band! How sound can realise group identity and enacts intergroup domination. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56(1), 181–196. doi:10.1111/bjso.12175

Stott, C., & Drury, J. (2017). Contemporary understanding of riots: Classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach. Public Understanding of Science, 26(1), 2–14. doi: 10.1177/0963662516639872 

Stott, C., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2017). On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: The 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney. British Journal of Criminology, 57(4), 964-981. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azw036 

Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2017). The biographical consequences of protest and activism: A systematic review and a new typology. Social Movement Studies 16(2), 203–221. doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1252665

Carter, H., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., & Williams, R. (2016). Mass casualty decontamination in a chemical or radiological/nuclear incident: Further guiding principlesPLoS Currents Disasters Edition 1. doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.569a83b893759346e511a070cb900d52

Alfadhli, K., & Drury, J. (2016). Psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries: A critical literature review. Intervention: Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas,14(2), 128–141. doi: 10.1097/WTF.0000000000000119

von Sivers, I., Templeton, A., Kunzner, F., Koster, G., Drury, J., Philippides, A., Neckel, T., & Bungartz, H.-J. (2016). Modelling social identification and helping in evacuation simulation. Safety Science, 89, 288–300. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.07.001

Reicher, S., Templeton, A., Neville, F., Ferrari, L. & Drury, J. (2016). Core disgust is attenuated by ingroup relations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(10), 2631-2635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517027113 

Drury, J., Brown, R., González, R., & Miranda, D. (2016). Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster: Solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(2), 209–223. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2146 

Templeton, A., Drury, J., & Philippides, A. (2015). From mindless masses to small groups: Conceptualising collective behaviour in crowd modelling. Review of General Psychology, 19(3), 215-229. doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000032 

Vezzali, L., Drury, J., Cadamuro, A., & Versari, A. (2015). Sharing distress increases helping and contact intentions via one-group representation and inclusion of the other in the self: Children’s prosocial behaviour after an earthquake. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. doi: 10.1177/1368430215590492 

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2015). Managing to avert disaster: Explaining collective resilience at an outdoor music event. European Journal of Social Psychology, 4, 533–547. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2108 

Drury, J. (2015). Social movements: A social psychological perspective. In: J. D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd edition). Vol. 22. (pp. 447–453). Oxford: Elsevier. 

Reicher, S., & Drury, J. (2015). Collective behaviour, social psychology of. In: J. D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd edition). Vol. 22. (pp. 151-156). Oxford: Elsevier. 

Carter, H., Drury, J., Rubin, G. J., Williams, R., & Amlôt, R. (2015). Applying crowd psychology to develop recommendations for the management of mass decontamination. Health Security, 13(1), 45-53. doi:10.1089/hs.2014.0061 

Carter, H., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., & Williams, R. (2015). Effective responder communication, perceived responder legitimacy and group identification predict public cooperation and compliance in a mass decontamination visualisation experiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 45, 173–189. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12286 

Drury, J., Evripidou, A., & Van Zomeren, M. (2015). Empowerment: The intersection of identity and power in collective action. In D. Sindic, M. Barreto, & R. Costa-Lopes (Eds.), Power and identity (pp. 94-116). Psychology Press. 

Alnabulsi, H., & Drury, J. (2014). Social identification moderates the effect of crowd density on safety at the Hajj. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(25), 9091-9096. doi:10.1073/pnas.1404953111

von Sivers, I., Templeton, A., Koester, G., Drury, J., Philippides, A. (2014). Humans do not always act selfishly: Social identity and helping in emergency evacuation simulation. Transportation Research Procedia, 2, 585–593.

Carter, H., Drury, J., Rubin, G. J., Williams, R., & Amlôt, R. (2014). Emergency responders’ experiences of and expectations regarding emergency decontamination. International Journal of Emergency Services, 3(2), 179-192.

Drury, J. (2014). Crowd psychology. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology (pp. 341-344). New York: Springer.

Carter, H., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., & Williams, R. (2014). Effective responder communication improves efficiency and psychological outcomes in a mass decontamination field experiment: Implications for public behaviour in the event of a chemical incident. PLoS ONE 9(3): e89846. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0089846

Cocking, C., & Drury, J. (2014). Talking about Hillsborough: ‘Panic’ as discourse in survivors’ accounts of the 1989 football stadium disaster. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 24(2), 86–99.

Novelli, D., Drury, J., Reicher, S., & Stott, C. (2013). Crowdedness mediates the effect of social identification on positive emotion in a crowd: A survey of two crowd events. PLoS ONE 8(11): e78983. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078983 

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2013). Psychological disaster myths in the perception and management of mass emergencies. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(11), 2259-2270. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12176

Evripidou, A., & Drury, J. (2013). ‘This is the time of tension’: Collective action and subjective power in the Greek anti-austerity movement. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 1, 31-51.

Carter, H., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., & Williams, R. (2013). Perceived responder legitimacy and group identification predict cooperation and compliance in a mass decontamination field exercise. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35, 575-585.

Carter, H., Drury, J., Rubin, G. J., Williams, R., & Amlôt, R. (2013). Communication during mass casualty decontamination: Highlighting the gaps. International Journal of Emergency Services, 2(1), 29-48. doi: 10.1108/IJES-06-2012-0026

Carter, H., Drury, J., Rubin, G. J., Williams, R., & Amlôt, R. (2013). The effect of communication during mass decontamination. Disaster Prevention and Management, 22(2), 132–147. doi: 10.1108/09653561311325280

Drury, J., Novelli, D., & Stott, C. (2013). Representing crowd behaviour in emergency planning guidance: ‘Mass panic’ or collective resilience? Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 1(1), 18-37. doi: 10.1080/21693293.2013.765740

Drury, J., & Stott, C. (Eds.) (2013). Crowds in the 21st century: Perspectives from contemporary social science. London: Routledge.

Carter, H., Drury, J., Rubin, G. J., Williams, R., & Amlôt, R. (2012). Public experiences of mass casualty decontamination. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 10(3), 280-289. doi:10.1089/bsp.2012.0013

Drury, J. (2012). Prejudice is about politics: A collective action perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(6), 20-21. doi:10.1017/S0140525X12001173

Drury, J., Kemp, V., Newman, J., Novelli, D., Doyle, C., Walter, D., & Williams, R. (2012). Psychosocial care for persons affected by emergencies and major incidents: A Delphi study to determine the needs of professional first responders for education, training and support. Emergency Medicine Journal. doi:10.1136/emermed-2012-201632

Drury, J., & Williams, R. (2012). Children and young people who are refugees, internally displaced persons or victims or perpetrators of war, mass violence and terrorism. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 25(4), 277-284.

Ball, R., & Drury, J. (2012). Representing the riots: The (mis)use of figures to sustain ideological explanation. Radical Statistics, 106, 4-21.

Stott, C., Drury, J., & Reicher, S. (2012). From ‘prejudice’ to collective action. In J. Dixon and M. Levine (Eds.), Beyond prejudice: Extending the social psychology of conflict, inequality and social change (pp. 286-303). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, R., de Visser, R., Dittmar, H., Drury, J., Farsides, T., Jessop, D., & Sparks, P. (2012). Social psychology and policy-making: Past neglect, future promise. Public Policy Research, 18(4), 227-234. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-540X.2012.00670.x/pdf

Drury, J. (2012). Collective resilience in mass emergencies and disasters: A social identity model. In J. Jetten, C. Haslam, & S. A. Haslam (Eds.), The social cure: Identity, health, and well-being (pp. 195-215).Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Drury, J., & Stott, C. (2011). Contextualizing the crowd in contemporary social science. Contemporary Social Science, 6(3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/21582041.2011.625626

Williams, R., & Drury, J. (2011). Personal and collective psychosocial resilience: Implications for children, young people and their families involved in war and disasters. In D. T. Cook & J. Wall (Eds.), Children and armed conflict: Cross-disciplinary investigations (pp. 57-75). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Drury, J., & Novelli, D. (2011). Collective joy and the power of the crowd: A social psychological perspective on Melanie Manchot’s exhibition ‘Gathering’. Brighton: Fabrica Gallery.

Drury. J., & Reicher, S. (2010). Crowd control: How we avoid mass panic. Scientific American Mind, November/December 2010, 58-65.

Reicher, S., & Drury, J. (2011). Collective identity, political participation and the making of the social self. In A. Azzi, X. Chryssochoou, B. Klandermans, & B. Simon (Eds.), Identity and participation in culturally diverse societies: A multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 158-176). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.