Young people do not trust that a story is credible simply because an expert, editorial gatekeeper, or other authority figure ...

Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighborhood model, based on the visual fields of each person in the crowd. Birds flock, fish school, and human crowds, too, move in a ...

A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when ...

However, the researchers were keen to investigate whether the reality of a human crowd bears out this theory, so they devised an experiment to simulate a busy road crossing.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday did not deny that federal government confidential human sources were in the crowd at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Human stampedes have occurred at various types of gatherings around the world. Between 1980 and 2022, there were an estimated 440 crowd surge incidents, which led to more than 13,700 deaths and ...