'In the Face of an Emergency: What Makes a Responsive and Resilient Society?' Journal of Terrorism Research, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2012
I am a social psychologist who specialises in the study of crowd behaviour. I am interested in all situations when people come together in a crowd, either to protest, go to a sports match or festival, or if they get caught up in a mass emergency. I set this blog up to redress what I saw was a negative bias in the Press against crowds in general. Hope you like it!
Sunday, 15 July 2012
paper on emergency response
Just read an interesting article on how people respond to emergencies such as terrorist attacks by Montine Walters, the Olympic Resilience Officer for the Greater London Authority. It makes the point that rather than being prone to mass panic or shocked into inaction, bystanders of mass emergencies can and do often co-operate to help other survivors, and that these 'zero-responders' can be a useful resource before the emergency services arrive.
'In the Face of an Emergency: What Makes a Responsive and Resilient Society?' Journal of Terrorism Research, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2012
'In the Face of an Emergency: What Makes a Responsive and Resilient Society?' Journal of Terrorism Research, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2012
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