Researcher in Social Psychology at University of Sussex.
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p242900-harry-lewis/publications
Harry Lewis
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...with the always excellent @profjohndrury.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social, @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Fiona Green, Danielle Evans and Zhonghao Wen.
Struggling to find peer reviewed evidence in support of spending all of your money on going to festivals and gigs? Let us help... doi.org/10.1002/casp...
w/ @profjohndrury.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social Danielle Evans, Fiona Green
Interested in the psychology of disruptive behaviour at music events? Well have a read of this. Highlights include me, @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @sanjeedah.bsky.social throwing ourselves around in mosh pits for science (plus in-depth interviews & a big old survey). dx.doi.org/10.1111/asap...
Understanding the “new” disruptive behavior at live music events: Group normative (mis)alignment and collective self-regulation
Now published in ASAP journal.
Please share.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Coming soon to a Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology near you...
Our survey of over 2000 attendees, from both UK and USA, and across a wide variety of genres and events (both gigs and festivals) found this:
Public worry about Palestine Action ban’s impact on UK democracy, new survey finds
Evidence that the ban affects:
- willingness to protest
- trust in government
- perception of divisions in UK
More here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Full report: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
New preprint (with @profjohndrury.bsky.social ) on prefigurative politics in Chile’s 2019 social explosion, based on interviews with participants in demonstrations and cabildos🧵:
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
Disruptive crowd behaviour back in the news again!
This time it's journalists saying it's a thing.
But crowd safety professionals say 'The overwhelming majority of events take place safely & securely, with no disruption, but those stories rarely make the news.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
