Predicting evacuation in two major disasters : risk perception, social influence, and access to resources.
Material type: TextSeries: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 335Publication details: [Newark, Del.] : University of Delaware, 1999Description: p. 918-934 : illSubject(s): DDC classification:- 363.34922 21
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In Journal of applied social psychology, 29 (1999) : 918-134
Includes bibliography (p. 932-934)
The complex phenomenon of why people sometimes decide not to evacuate from a dangerous situation is influenced by a combination of individual characteristics and three basic social psychological processes: a) risk perception; b) social influence, and c) access to resources. This study used a combined sample of 777 adults interviewed after Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew
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