Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers.

Evidence

I guess I’d say mutually supportive. We were all strangers really, we were certainly surrounded by strangers but : : : . most of, I mean I’d got my kids by me, but most people were split up from anybody they knew, and yet there was this sort of camaraderie like you hear about in the war times and this sort of thing.. there there was certainly a pulling together as opposed to a pulling apart. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes themes in Drury & Reicher’s work on shared identity in emergency crowds, and contrasts with panic-theory accounts of disaster behavior. — connects to: WTC evacuations were calm and cooperative rather than panicked — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 33; Most survivors in this mass emergency were strangers to one another — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 68; Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 72 (+12 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 61

Related

• Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.91)
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.90)
• Crowds during disasters are a resource for support, not a panic problem. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. (similarity 0.89)
• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.89)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.89)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.88)
• A shared identity can emerge within a crowd only after an emergency begins. (similarity 0.87)
• The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies (similarity 0.87)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.87)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.87)
• Emergency crowds can generate new social bonds among strangers. (similarity 0.87)
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help (similarity 0.87)
• Post-disaster solidarity toward strangers stems from emergent shared social identity, not prior personal ties. (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. #corroborates (0.92) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers. #corroborates (0.88) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 26
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters #corroborates (0.85) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 15
• The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies #expands (0.80) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 126
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. #expands (0.78) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 79