Research Article

Waiting Behavior and Arousal in Different Levels of Crowd Density: A Psychological Experiment with a “Tiny Box”

Table 3

Mean parameters SCL and NS.SCR for the whole time and for different time periods.

Density 2Density 4Density 6Density 8

SCL
 Whole time-mean9.34 (4.07)9.15 (4.20)8.82 (3.82)9.42 (3.85)
 Time period 1-mean10.45 (4.49) ✠9.78 (4.27)9.34 (3.83)9.97 (4.00) ✠
 Time period 2-mean8.96 (3.92) ✠9.04 (4.25)┼8.63 (3.74)┼9.39 (3.90) ✠
 Time period 3-mean8.60 (3.99) ✠8.63 (4.27)┼8.50 (4.05)┼8.89 (3.81) ✠
NS.SCR
 Whole time-mean18.41 (6.04)18.66 (7.35)16.76 (5.80)17.48 (5.91)
 Time period 1-mean6.07 (2.09)6.07 (2.43)5.03 (1.66)5.72 (1.96)
 Time period 2-mean5.83 (2.00)5.90 (2.78)5.66 (2.54)5.41 (1.99)
 Time period 3-mean5.90 (2.61)5.24 (2.82)5.52 (2.56)┼5.90 (2.58)┼

Note. In the brackets is the standard deviation ┼: Significant difference in comparison to time period 1 within one density, ✠: Significant differences between all the different time periods within one density, : Significant difference in comparison to density 6 between the density but within one time period.