Panic: Myth or Reality?

By L. Clarke. 2002

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The hazard of near-Earth asteroid impacts on earth (2004, background): “Yet some social scientists (e.g., [ 73 ]) have concluded that people rarely panic in disasters.”
The role of social identity processes in mass emergency behaviour: An integrative review (2018, background): “In many major incidents, the crowd comprises strangers as well as affiliates, yet still there is evidence of widespread helping and other forms of social coordination among these strangers (Clarke, 2002).”
The Nature of Collective Resilience: Survivor Reactions to the 2005 London Bombings (2009, background): “An emergency or disaster, far from dividing people into instinctdriven competitive individuals, can serve to create a powerful sense of unity and hence mutual support amongst survivors both during the immediate crisis (Aguirre 2005; Clarke 2002) and in the recovery period afterwards (Fritz 1968; Fri”