Herd Sense
The attentional ability for individuals in a mass-transit environment to navigate a crowd and not impede others’ navigation, such as by stopping suddenly, being distracted by a phone, or zig-zag walking.
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Origin
Coined by Gabriel Krieshok around 2006 while navigating the crowded sidewalks of the University of Kansas campus, where he observed that some pedestrians possessed an intuitive spatial awareness of the crowd's flow while others — phone-gazers, sudden-stoppers, zig-zaggers — lacked it entirely.
Updated February 22, 2026