Outdoor Crowd

The idea of an easy escape from the solitude of home is not necessarily what you ended up with when you entered the overwhelming sensory experience of being in the middle of a huge crowd. Hands and eyes everywhere. Mouths that make such tremendous noise but seems to say nothing, all mushing together to form some great unintelligible shout. Perhaps you should just put on some tea and be grateful for the swishing sound of a single breath. Crowd psychology is a branch of social psychology. Ordinary people can typically gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy. Social scientists have developed several different theories for explaining crowd psychology, and the ways in which the psychology of the crowd differs significantly from the psychology of those individuals within it. Carl Jung coined the notion of the Collective unconscious. Convergence theory holds that crowd behavior is not a product of the crowd itself, but is carried into the crowd by particular individuals. Thus, crowds amount to a convergence of like-minded individuals. In other words, while contagion theory states that crowds cause people to act in a certain way, convergence theory says the opposite: that people who wish to act in a certain way come together to form crowds. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120752