Mass Panic and Social Attachment: The Dynamics of Human Behavior

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Psychological disaster myths in the perception and management of mass emergencies (2013, background): “…leading to escape behaviors that are over-hasty, unthinking, and unrestrained by social rules (e.g., McDougall, 1920; Schultz, 1964; Strauss, 1944; see Chertkoff & Kushigian, 1999, and Mawson, 2007, for comprehensive reviews of the various “mass panic” theories in psychology and sociology).”
The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review (2018, background): “…(such as that of Leach, 2004) and those individual-mechanism focused theories that set out to explain collective responses (such as that of Mawson, 2007). limited information, and so what appears post hoc and from an external perspective to be an overreaction (such as running frantically…”