Coordinated evacuation depends on organisation, not on the absence of emotion.

Evidence

We included as “helping” such behaviours as helping people to their feet, moving objects so that others could escape more quickly, giving encouragement, sharing bottles of water, and giving information and advice. Behaviours defined as personally selfish included barging or pushing others aside, ignoring others in need, trying to step in ahead of others, and ignoring pleas for help. We distinguished helping from more everyday forms of cooperative or “orderly” conduct (cf. Reicher & Haslam, 2010) including order and calm, adherence to everyday rules, maintenance of social roles, and courtesy vs. discourtesy. Each of these could contribute to an organised, coordinated evacuation. … 7In retrospect, the linking of “calmness” with orderliness is problematic, because it suggests that emotionality is the issue. It is possible for a relatively unemotional crowd to block a door if their exit is uncoordinated (Mintz, 1951), and for a frightened or angry crowd to display self-organisation. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 83

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the reader’s piece on ‘On Sacrifice’ and broader work on crowds, but more precisely it complements how panic is routinely mislabelled — fits the theme that apparent disorder is often structured behaviour.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the crucial distinction between help-giving, orderly conduct, and selfishness as separate categories of emergency behaviour.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 83
• XREF: connects to: People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 14; WTC evacuations were calm and cooperative rather than panicked — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 33; Collective coordination and efficacy depend on others’ co-action, unlike one-to-one support. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 114 (+3 more)

Related

• WTC evacuations were calm and cooperative rather than panicked (similarity 0.86)
• Crowds during disasters are a resource for support, not a panic problem. (similarity 0.85)
• Even in bad evacuations panic stays confined to a small fraction (similarity 0.84)
• People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. (similarity 0.84)
• Emergencies typically produce mutual aid and orderliness rather than competitive panic. (similarity 0.83)
• Mutual helping, not selfish flight, is the dominant emergency behaviour (similarity 0.82)
• Mass emergency behaviour stems from social identity, not panic or irrationality (similarity 0.81)
• Individualistic scrambling in an emergency blocks exits and increases danger (similarity 0.81)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.81)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.80)
• Crowd identification predicts helping and reduces pushing in evacuation simulations. (similarity 0.80)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.80)
• The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies (similarity 0.80)
• A shared identity can emerge within a crowd only after an emergency begins. (similarity 0.80)
• Shared identity turns crowds from irrational mobs into solidarity-based adaptive resources (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Coordination, not normative commitment, sustains social order in many regimes. #expands (0.90) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 713
• Resilience is an emergent group process, not a pre-existing personality trait. #expands (0.85) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 21
• Collective coordination and efficacy depend on others’ co-action, unlike one-to-one support. #expands (0.80) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 114
• Civilians long accustomed to border evacuation orders flee with discipline, not panic #exemplifies (0.80) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 349