TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Collective motion of humans in mosh and circle pits at heavy metal concerts
JO  - Physical review letters
A1  - Silverberg, Jesse L.
A1  - Bierbaum, Matthew
A1  - Sethna, James P.
A1  - Cohen, Itai
SP  - e228701
EP  - e228701
VL  - 110
IS  - 22
N2  - Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context. Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of attendees at heavy metal concerts. We find these extreme social gatherings generate similarly extreme behaviors: a disordered gaslike state called a mosh pit and an ordered vortexlike state called a circle pit. Both phenomena are reproduced in flocking simulations demonstrating that human collective behavior is consistent with the predictions of simplified models.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0031-9007
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.228701
ID  - ref1
ER  -