Gaming approach to crowd behavior

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Berk in the article, "Gaming Approach to Crowd Behavior," details a crowd situation leading up to the barricade episodic and applies utilitarian decision theory to explain it. What collective/individual factors does he stress in the unfolding of the episodic? That is, explain what his approach is about. Do you think that this approach has a merit in explaining compacted collective behavior? How would Turner & Killian (emergent norm) respond?

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