Emergencies typically produce mutual aid and orderliness rather than competitive panic.
Evidence
In disaster research, the critique of the notion of ‘mass panic’ grew from the observation that collective behaviour in emergencies is more typically characterized by sociality (such as mutual aid, orderliness, and courtesy) than by individualized competition (Fritz & Williams, 1957; Quarantelli, 1954). — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 9
Categorization
- XREF: Surprising fact to connect against the ‘hoard / stampede’ imagery often invoked in media and disaster films — collective behavior scholarship’s counter-narrative. — connects to: Emergency services overwhelmed after sudden disasters make mutual aid essential for survival. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 49; Crowds during disasters are a resource for support, not a panic problem. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 135; People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 14 (+5 more)
- CANDY: A genuinely counterintuitive, quotable tidbit: crowds in real emergencies tend toward courtesy, not trampling.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 9
Related
- Mutual helping, not selfish flight, is the dominant emergency behaviour (similarity 0.90)
- Crowds during disasters are a resource for support, not a panic problem. (similarity 0.89)
- Emergency services overwhelmed after sudden disasters make mutual aid essential for survival. (similarity 0.89)
- People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. (similarity 0.88)
- Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.88)
- Mass emergency behaviour stems from social identity, not panic or irrationality (similarity 0.87)
- Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.87)
- Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.86)
- Existing social bonds do not always explain emergency collective behaviour (similarity 0.86)
- Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. (similarity 0.86)
- Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.86)
- Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.85)
- Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.85)
- Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.85)
- Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest.
#corroborates(0.90) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 14 - Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency.
#corroborates(0.85) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104 - Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help.
#corroborates(0.85) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 47 - Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation.
#qualifies(0.80) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 27 - Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal
#qualifies(0.75)