Countering Fatalism: Causal Information in News Reports Affects Judgments About Earthquake Damage

By John McClure, M. W. Allen, F. Walkey. 2001

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Sociology and Political Science

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The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature (2010, background): “McClure and colleagues (Cowan et al. 2002; McClure et al., 1999, 2001, 2007a,b) have shown that certain characteristics of information about earthquake damage, as presented via mass media reports for example, can shape attitudes towards preventability.”
The role of prior experience in informing and motivating earthquake preparedness (2017, background): “Research by McClure et al. (2001, 2007a, 2007b) note that many initial media reports of disasters are exaggerated and ‘instance based’, focusing on damage and destruction and thus contributing to the formation of fatalistic beliefs.”
Predictors of Two Types of Earthquake Preparation (2008, background): “…mitigation actions relate to perceptions of control more than risk propensity, interventions should target these control perceptions, and show people that they can obtain the resources to deal with the threat imposed by natural hazards (Duval & Mulilis, 1999; McClure et al., 2001; Paton, 2003).”
A model of household preparedness for earthquakes: how individuals make meaning of earthquake information and how this influences preparedness (2012, background): “This includes, for example, self-efficacy (Cowan et al. 2002; Duval and Mulilis 1999; Lindell and Prater 2002; Lindell and Whitney 2000; McClure et al. 1999, 2001; McClure et al. 2007a, b; Mulilis and Duval 1995; Rüstemli and Karanci 1999; Şakioroğlu and Karanci 2008); outcome expectancy (Davis…”