Explaining effervescence: Investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowdsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: Cognition & Emotion, ISSN 0269-9931, E-ISSN 1464-0600, Vol. 30, no 1, p. 20-32Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We investigated the intensely positive emotional experiences arising from participation in a large-scale collective event. We predicted such experiences arise when those attending a collective event are (1) able to enact their valued collective identity and (2) experience close relations with other participants. In turn, we predicted both of these to be more likely when participants perceived crowd members to share a common collective identity. We investigated these predictions in a survey of pilgrims (N = 416) attending a month-long Hindu pilgrimage festival in north India. We found participants' perceptions of a shared identity amongst crowd members had an indirect effect on their positive experience at the event through (1) increasing participants' sense that they were able to enact their collective identity and (2) increasing the sense of intimacy with other crowd members. We discuss the implications of these data for how crowd emotion should be conceptualised.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2016. Vol. 30, no 1, p. 20-32
Keywords [en]
Crowds, Effervescence, Shared identity, Positive emotion, Collective self-realisation
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-85403DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1015969ISI: 000363766400003PubMedID: 25787295Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84946487220OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-85403DiVA, id: diva2:1463998
Note
Funding Agency:
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) RES-062-23-1449 ES/G00711X/1
2020-09-032020-09-032020-09-07Bibliographically approved