What better way to motivate athletes than to have a crowd cheering them on?

They are cheering because financial markets are cheering, following the Federal Reserve s recent announcement of further stimulus.

Afghan children cheering for peace.

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A crowd of earlier generations

A crowd of earlier generations

I hope you would view this difference like two people cheering for two different football teams.

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Crowd manipulation is the intentional use of techniques based on the principles of crowd psychology to engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd in order to direct its behavior toward a specific action.

But how could the crowd become synchronized?

Let's wait until the crowd thins out.

In crowd politics, emotions often supersede goals.

Impoverished communities are cheering the prospect of a rapid ramp up in girls education, if meager resources permit.

A US peace plan that is fair and reasonable would certainly have many ordinary Israelis and Palestinians cheering.

In normal times, deficits crowd out private investment (and perhaps crowd in private saving and or foreign capital), and hence reduce future growth.

The crowd yelled when he scored a goal.

Rebuilding the country will require much more than the cheering from the sidelines that Western countries have offered so far.

This is the time for us to reclaim our rights, he told the cheering crowds. Your demands are my demands.

What if, in the coming crowd of nine billion ...

For the past 12 days, they have remained on the square, eating, drinking, chanting, cheering simply living there day and night.

A huge crowd turned out to protest against carrying weapons.

The crowd was estimated to be between 5,000 and 30,000.

And before I even knew it, I was suddenly on a stage surrounded by thousands of cheering people during a political rally.

While the women around me kept cheering, I resolved that from then on I would resist the practice with all my might.

Football fans were cheering their country, which is taking part in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations Group D encounter in Lubango.

Lebanon was perhaps the first Arab country to experience crowd politics.

The vitality and size of the crowd has surprised and delighted.

And they're thinking, well this will be really useful in places like where we need to clear a crowd out of a particular area, if the crowd is being hostile.

Governments must find a way to prevent small groups from using the crowd effect as political capital, thereby causing crowd sizes to become more decisive than the number of ballots cast.

SATIRE Heshoz shares this picture showing the Emir of Qatar cheering on the on going war of words between North Korea and the US.

Hesham Mansour shares this picture showing the Emir of Qatar cheering on the on going war of words between North Korea and the US.

That key point appears all but lost on the consumer recovery crowd.

From the rear of the huge crowd came shouts Ti mi soara!

Techcrunch calls it proof that a crowd sourced photo agency can work.

The purpose of the gunfire should have been to disperse the crowd.

So Ms. Dewey heard this, and she shook her head in despair while fellow teachers were sort of cheering each other on and nodding approvingly.

In the ensuing panic, police opened fire on the crowd and each other.

They also performed for a small crowd at MTV Iggy on March 10.

They're in the crowd, and the crowd is switching on lights, and we can see them for the first time, not as an undifferentiated mass of strangers, but as individuals we can learn from.

But that didn t mean that I didn t want to try the feeling of being in a football ground watching people cheering over men passing a ball.

A few dozen schoolmates witnessed to the incident, cheering for the bullies. Someone videotaped it too and uploaded the footage to the Internet on May 16.

Likewise, during expansions, higher government spending is more likely to crowd out private spending.