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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
The sound of backfiring motorcycles sent the crowd in New York City's Times Square into a panic Tuesday night. Times Square panic: Video shows stampede as crowd mistakes motorcycle backfire for ...
In June 2019, fears of a mass shooting quickly spread through the crowd attending a Pride parade in Washington, D.C., which caused panic and a stampede as people fled in all directions. Calls of ...
Incidents involving crowds are often reported by media as the results of "panic", [21] [22] but some experts have criticized the media's implication that panic is a main cause of crowd disasters, noting that actual panic is relatively rare in fire situations, and that the major factors in dangerous crowd incidents are infrastructure design ...
Over 100 people died when someone in the choir yelled, "There's a fight!". "Fight" was misheard as "fire" in a crowded church of approximately 3000 people, causing a panic and crush. [27] In the Italian Hall disaster, Calumet, Michigan on December 24, 1913. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families ...
Panic in social psychology is considered infectious since it can spread to a multitude of people and those affected are expected to act irrationally as a consequence. [6] Psychologists identify different types of this panic event with slightly varying descriptions, which include mass panic, mass hysteria, mass psychosis, and social contagion. [7]
A disturbance caused panic among attendees of the March For Our Lives gun reform rally on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, June 11.This footage, captured by photojournalist Tara ...
[a] For a person in a crowd a signal of danger, and a warning to get out of the crowd if possible, is the sensation of being touched on all four sides. A later, more serious, warning is when one feels shock waves travelling through the crowd, due to people at the back pushing forward against people at the front with nowhere to go. [21]