Editing Crowd (section)

==Terminology==
The term "crowd" is sometimes defined in contrast to other group nouns for collections of humans or animals, such as aggregation, audience, group, mass, mob, populous, public, rabble and throng.  Opinion researcher [[Vincent Price (educator)|Vincent Price]] compares masses and crowds, saying that "Crowds are defined by their shared emotional experiences, but masses are defined by their interpersonal isolation."<ref name="glynn">''Public Opinion'', by Carroll J. Glynn, Susan Herbst, Garrett J. O'Keefe, Robert Y. Shapiro {{ISBN?}} {{page?|date=December 2023}}</ref>

In human sociology, the term "mobbed" simply means "extremely [[wikt:crowded|crowded]]", as in a busy [[shopping mall|mall]] or shop. "[[Mobbing]]", carries a more negative connotation associated with [[bullying]]. In [[Mobbing (animal behavior)|animal behaviour]], mobbing is a technique where many individuals of one species "gang up" on a larger individual of another species to drive them away. {{citation needed|date=November 2020}} Mobbing behaviour is often seen in [[bird]]s.