Panic, Irrationality, and Herding: Three Ambiguous Terms in Crowd Dynamics Research

Figure 6

Visualising temporal analyses on quotes that include the term herding. The column chart on the top represents the total number of quotes and the ones in the bottom splits the frequency based on whether the quotes support or contradict the theory (chart on the left) and based on the study discipline (chart on the right). To account for the fact that the last time interval includes 6 years as opposed to the rest of the time intervals that include 5 years, the numbers associated with the last interval have been scaled down by a factor of 5/6. The very few studies covered by this review and published prior to 1993 or in 2019 we accommodated in the first and last intervals, respectively.