Calming troubled waters: Peacemakers in a sports riot

✍ Scribed by Gordon W. Russell; Robert L. Arms

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 20 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/ab.1012

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This investigation sought to identify a set of measures predictive of those who would intervene in a crowd disturbance with the intent of restoring order. Male participants (N = 74) completed a battery of social and personality measures. Men who had previously attempted to break up a fight(s), including those who had recently intervened and judged their efforts to have been successful, were most likely to step in. Additionally, peacemakers were subject to the false consensus effect and strongly believed in law and order. A multiple regression analysis yielded a solution that accounted for 40.3% of the variance, with previous experience as a peacemaker and attitudes toward law and order emerging as the best predictors. Aggr. Behav. 27:292–296, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.