ArticleScience advances2021
Mutual anticipation can contribute to self-organization in human crowds.
Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessing pedestrian responses to autonomous and personal mobility robots in crowded public spaces.Science advances · 2026Article
- Quantifying mutual hesitation and identifying kinematic predictors in near-collision avoidance in walking.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Unraveling human crowd dynamics through the foot tracking of pedestrians.Science advances · 2025Article
- Dense Crowd Dynamics and Pedestrian Trajectories: A Multiscale Field Dataset from the Festival of Lights in Lyon.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Order-disorder transition in multidirectional crowds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Quantifying crowding perception at large events using beacons and surveys.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Robust spatial self-organization in crowds of asynchronous pedestrians.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Controlling inter-particle distances in crowds of motile, cognitive, active particles.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Persistent and responsive collective motion with adaptive time delay.Science advances · 2024Article
- Dimensionless numbers reveal distinct regimes in the structure and dynamics of pedestrian crowds.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- The effect of group size and task involvement on temporal binding window in clap perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Environmental memory boosts group formation of clueless individuals.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Waiting and walking with strangers: a socio-psychological pedestrian experiment on joint action in anonymous situations.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Spontaneous behavioral coordination between avoiding pedestrians requires mutual anticipation rather than mutual gaze.iScience · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Human crowds provide paradigmatic examples of collective behavior emerging through self-organization. Understanding their dynamics is crucial to help manage mass events and daily pedestrian transportation. Although recent findings emphasized that pedestrians' interactions are fundamentally anticipatory in nature, whether and how individual anticipation functionally benefits the group is not well understood. Here, we show the link between individual anticipation and emergent pattern formation through our experiments of lane formation, where unidirectional lanes are spontaneously formed in bidirectional pedestrian flows. Manipulating the anticipatory abilities of some of the pedestrians by distracting them visually delayed the collective pattern formation. Moreover, both the distracted pedestrians and the nondistracted ones had difficulties avoiding collisions while navigating. These results imply that avoidance maneuvers are normally a cooperative process and that mutual anticipation between pedestrians facilitates efficient pattern formation. Our findings may influence various fields, including traffic management, decision-making research, and swarm dynamics.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.