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John Drury
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Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.

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John Drury is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. His core research is in the area of crowd psychology.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Nov 15

Crowds & Identities -- a starter pack.

Please share.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5h
Carpet of crocuses on @sussex.ac.uk campus today

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22h
Ian Chapman ‘very sorry’ for UKRI not engaging on funding changes @resprofnews.bsky.social

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Ian Chapman ‘very sorry’ for UKRI not engaging on funding changes - Research Professional News
Chief executive says funder has “not done our communications in the right way”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 23h
Human Decision-Making in Crowds in a Virtual Flood Scenario

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Reposted by Andrew Livingstone, Mark Robinson

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 1d
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, wher...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Martin McKee, John Drury, Ruairidh Milne , and 2 more

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 3d
Our new paper:

Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy

#episky #healthpolicy #medsky

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
www.cambridge.org

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
Corrected version now published:

'“Most people didn’t think that others’ behaviour had worsened since the pandemic, a view which contrasts with that of industry staff.”

Drury, who is sympathetic to those people who want to follow the queueing system at pubs....'

www.com/lifeandstyle...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
Sussex.ac.uk campus crocuses are here

Reposted by John Drury, Lesley A. Hall, Felicity Callard

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d
'Sasha Roseneil, the University of Sussex’s vice-chancellor, criticised the investigation at the time, arguing that the OfS had ignored or turned down nine requests by the university to meet with investigators, despite taking lengthy statements from Stock.'

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
(Not) joined up thinking on Higher Education.

Reposted by John Drury, Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall , and 2 more

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 5d
OfS urges High Court to dismiss university’s challenge on £585k fine.

Judicial review into fine imposed for free speech breaches at University of Sussex running for three days.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
OfS urges High Court to dismiss university’s challenge on £585k fine - Research Professional News
Judicial review into fine imposed for free speech breaches at University of Sussex running for three days
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
A Novel Protocol for an Experimental Epidemic Game to Study Quarantine Behavior Dynamics: The Epi-Q Study.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
@evangelospsych.bsky.social

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
@julzealejandre.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social @fergusneville.bsky.social @cliffstott.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social

@behaviourresuk.bsky.social @ukri.org funded
bsky.app

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
2/2 'As such, we follow the approaches of historians who have tried to reconstruct "disorderly" events as well as social psychologists of riots who have adopted similar methods'

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
1/2 'In social psychology, the current ease of online surveys, vignette experiments and so on only reinforces a point made 20 years ago that studies of "behaviour" are rare compared to studies of self-report....'

Reposted by Katrina Navickas, Juanjo Medina

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych.

Link to pre-print below.

www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP
Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies
The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...
www.qeios.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
‘We’re fighting for the soul of the country’: how Minnesota residents came together to face ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We’re fighting for the soul of the country’: how Minnesota residents came together to face ICE
Networks created after police killed George Floyd were reactivated to challenge Trump’s mass deportation policy
www.theguardian.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
No, anyone can respond.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
Solidarity With Palestinians in Germany and the United Kingdom: The Distinctiveness of Beliefs, Emotions, and Attitudes for Third-Party Solidarity in Democratic, Yet Issue-Specific Repressive Contexts
New from @schreiber-julia.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reposted by Lupicínio Íñiguez-Rueda

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 9d
Why do people now queue in pubs?

(BTW I didn't say that 'the public didn't realise that their behaviour has changed'; I am not a 'supporter' of queuing; and I don't think that social pressure is the main reason why this queuing norm persists...)

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’
www.theguardian.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10d
Obituary: Professor Chris Chatwin

staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article...
Obituary: Professor Chris Chatwin
Professor Chris Chatwin passed away on the evening of Sunday 11 January 2026. He had been living with cancer and had only retired the previous summer
staff.sussex.ac.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10d
Like football and have views on pyros? Help us with research on the psychology involved this important topic.

My student's survey takes just 5 minutes to fill in.

universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10d
'Supporters commonly told the BBC that issues with organisation and the authorities occurred more often than risks posed by rival fans.'

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Champions League draw: How safe are fans at Uefa European fixtures?
BBC Sport explores the safety issues fans face when following their team across Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10d
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti-refugee hostility on social media during disasters

New from @drselintekin.bsky.social and colleagues

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by John Drury

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Kristian Roed Nielsen @roednielsen.bsky.social · 11d
📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS)

🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments

📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026

Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
Postdoc in Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
MSC is looking for a Postdoc interested in experimental consumer research to join an international project on sustainable food consumption.
www.cbs.dk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 12d
Our presentation today (with Holly Carter , UKHSA) as part of NFCC National Resilience training for fire service personnel on mass casualty decontamination.

More here:
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 14d
Relevant for @samreenchhabra.bsky.social

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 14d
There are too many special issues. Publishers encourage them (I say this based on my own experience as an editor-in-chief). When we looked at the data, we found that special issue articles get fewer views, fewer downloads, and fewer citations than normal articles.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 14d
Links:

Systematic review:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Interview study:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Longitudinal survey:
www.qeios.com/read/BYF1FU

Interview study:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A mixed studies systematic review on the health and wellbeing effects, and underlying mechanisms, of online support groups for chronic conditions - Communications Psychology
Online support groups for people with a chronic condition may positively impact social welleing, behaviour, and adjustment, but they may negatively influence anxiety and distress. The effects on physi...
www.nature.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 14d
. @freyamills.bsky.social's PhD research found that peer support groups can provide Long Covid sufferers with support & efficacy when there is shared identity. Such groups can sometimes increase fears & are not useful when their identity is incongruent with the participant's.

Links in next post.