The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature
By C. Solberg, T. Rossetto, H. Joffe. 2010
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Abstract. The majority of people at risk from earthquakes do little or nothing to reduce their vulnerability. Over the past 40 years social scientists have tried to predict and explain levels of seismic hazard adjustment using models from behavioural sciences such as psychology. The present paper is the first to synthesise the major findings from the international literature on psychological correlates and causes of seismic adjustment at the level of the individual and the household. It starts by reviewing research on seismic risk perception. Next, it looks at norms and normative beliefs, focusing particularly on issues of earthquake protection responsibility and trust between risk stakeholders. It then considers research on attitudes towards seismic adjustment attributes, specifically beliefs about efficacy, control and fate. It concludes that an updated model of seismic adjustment must give the issues of norms, trust, power and identity a more prominent role. These have been only sparsely represented in the social psychological literature to date.
Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The effects of trust in government on earthquake survivors’ risk perception and preparedness in China (2017, background): “trust can enhance cooperation, and thus, trust in authorities could increase the public’s to adopt mitigation and preparedness for natural hazards because they have higher propensity to follow the disaster management authorities’ suggestions (Solberg et al. 2010).”
- A model of household preparedness for earthquakes: how individuals make meaning of earthquake information and how this influences preparedness (2012, background): “The first is that risk perception appears to be only weakly correlated with household seismic adjustment adoption (Solberg et al. 2010).”
- The role of prior experience in informing and motivating earthquake preparedness (2017, background): “…and preparedness may be contingent on, for example, whether individuals experienced loss (Davis, 1989; Helweg-Larsen, 1999; Mileti and O'Brien, 1992; Solberg et al., 2010; Weinstein, 1989); experienced injury, or whether they knew of someone who had experienced an injury (Helweg-Larsen, 1999).”