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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.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2h
@moiranics.bsky.social -- have you seen work by Lise Jans at Groningen? www.rug.nl/staff/l.jans...
prof. dr. L. (Lise) Jans
Bekijk de profielpagina van prof. dr. L. (Lise) Jans, verbonden aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
www.rug.nl

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2h
@harrymlewis.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social @lewisdoyle.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2h
Understanding the “new” disruptive behavior at live music events: Group normative (mis)alignment and collective self-regulation
Now published in ASAP journal.

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spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 21h
Full recordings of the #ucu VP hustings will (I think) be up this week, but with the voting deadline looming I’m going to be posting my clips myself over the next few days.

First, some introductory comments in two short clips (2 mins each).

More about me also at: ucucommons.org/mark4vp/

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 1d
'Applause usually begins promptly and its onset is coordinated primarily by audience members acting independently in response to prominent junctures in a speech. Booing is usually delayed and is coordinated primarily by audience members monitoring each other's conduct so as to respond together.'

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d
Astounding that anyone, let alone a (presumably qualified) psychologist, produce such codswallop..

"85-90% of our decisions are ..... completely emotionally driven."

"DNA".

For shame.
Clip from a piece in the garden in which an evolutionary psychologist explains crowds booing by appeal to "our DNA"

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wordmerchant @thalkowski.bsky.social · 2d
For some real science on the topic of booing.... clayman.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...
clayman.scholar.ss.ucla.edu

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
See the replies for fascinating comments from real experts.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Looking forward to citing your work!

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Cliche-ridden pop psychology :(

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Oh dear indeed...

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Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 2d
And along those lines of 'villainy', there are plenty of instances where booing is used to mark and acknowledge a history with a player. Like if a player commited a dirty play or left a club they'll get booed every time they touch the ball as a collective acknowledgement that "we know what you did"

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Adrian Kerrison @adokerrison.bsky.social · 2d
I also enjoy how wrestling fans needed different methods for voicing critique. If they just booed then the 'bad guy' might seem to be doing his job of being booed well. So instead they'd chant "boring" or "you're can wrestle" to align the criticism to the match quality or a wrestler's skill vs. plot

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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 2d
Oh dear, indeed. Since when are emotions infectious? Le Bon argued that over 100 years ago, and it's been disproven. I've been at football and some people booed and others criticised them for booing. Clearly we're all animals who just follow the herd... 🙄

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
'To boo, or not to boo? Why do fans do it?'

Disappointing evolutionary explanation in the article. I'm sure others on here - @adokerrison.bsky.social @markdoidge.bsky.social @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social - can say something more interesting about football fans booing.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Football: Are fans booing their own team and manager more?
Booing at football is an accepted part of the game. It's been around since time began, but are fans increasingly booing their own team?
www.bbc.co.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
'UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule'

In line with public opinion, as our survey suggests?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3d
Primroses, crocuses, and carpet of snowdrops on @sussex.ac.uk campus today

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3d
New papier mache sculptures on @sussex.ac.uk campus today

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d
Important findings given how much weight many organizations put on bias training rather than other interventions.
jayvanbavel.bsky.social Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4d
A meta-analysis on reducing discrimination finds:
1) passive interventions, such as short-term education or bias reminders, are ineffective
2) targeting behavior directly to inhibit bias (eg making individuals accountable or changing social norms) is helpful
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d
I mean, why not just remove the paste button?

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d
Returning to the Process macro on SPSS after years away, there are some tweaks but also some reassuring familiarity.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4d
A meta-analysis on reducing discrimination finds:
1) passive interventions, such as short-term education or bias reminders, are ineffective
2) targeting behavior directly to inhibit bias (eg making individuals accountable or changing social norms) is helpful
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
*anti-roads

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
#spycops Roger Geffen’s evidence - and a potted history the ant/roads movement and beyond campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/02/09/u...
UCPI Daily Report, 4 Feb 2026: Roger Geffen evidence
The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from 1990s Reclaim the Streets activist Roger Geffen about the group & being spied on by undercover cops
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
Carpet of crocuses on @sussex.ac.uk campus today

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
Ian Chapman ‘very sorry’ for UKRI not engaging on funding changes @resprofnews.bsky.social

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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 · 7d
Human Decision-Making in Crowds in a Virtual Flood Scenario

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
egusphere.copernicus.org

Reposted by Andrew Livingstone, Mark Robinson

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

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<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

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10d
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 · 11d
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...