Panic at “The Who Concert Stampede”: An Empirical Assessment
Panic at “The Who Concert Stampede”: An Empirical Assessment
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DOI：
10.2307/800813
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发表时间：
1987-10
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
N. R. Johnson
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作者：
N. R. Johnson
我报告的证据表明，1979 年底，摇滚乐队 The Who 在辛辛那提河滨体育馆举办音乐会之前，恐慌并未导致众多年轻人伤亡。对死亡事件发生时出席的顾客和值班警察的采访笔录进行的分析显示，人们并没有像媒体报道所声称的那样，在急于进入体育馆时“踩踏”其他人。相反，参与者试图帮助他人，而大多数确实发生的比赛都反映了逃离拥挤的努力，而不是参加音乐会。我的结论是，有关集体行为的文献中的恐慌或“狂热”理论模型对于解释此类事件并不是很有用。
I report evidence showing that panic did not cause the death and injury of numerous young people prior to a concert by the rock group, The Who, at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum in late 1979. An analysis of transcripts of interviews with patrons in attendance and police who were on duty when the deaths occurred reveals that people did not “stampede” over others in their rush to enter the Coliseum as media accounts contend. Instead, participants tried to help others, and most competition that did occur reflected efforts to escape the crush rather than to enter the concert. I conclude that theoretical models of panics or “crazes” within the literature on collective behavior are not very useful in explaining this type of incident.