Колективната монография „Управление на масовите възприятия“ обобщава научните резултати от изследванията на докторантите по „Убеждаваща комуникация“ в докторската програма „Медии и комуникации” на Факултета по журналистика и масова комуникация при Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“. Издава се с помощта на Фонд „Научни изследвания” на Софий...
How can we best gauge the political opinions of the citizenry? Since their emergence in the 1930s, opinion polls—or surveys—have become the dominant way to assess the public will. But even given the long history of polling, there is no agreement among political scientists on how to best measure public opinion through polls. This article is a call f...
Tragically, mass gatherings such as music festivals, sports events or pilgrimage quite often end in terrible crowd disasters with many victims. In the past, research focused on developing physical models that model human behavior in order to simulate pedestrian flows and to identify potentially hazardous locations. However, no automatic systems for...
Congestions in pedestrian traffic typically occur when the number of pedestrians exceeds the capacity of pedestrian facilities. In some cases, the pedestrian density reaches a critical level which may lead to a crowd stampede as happens rather frequently at mass gatherings, in stadiums or at train stations. In the past, research has focused on impr...
