Personal cost does not explain why disaster survivors help each other.
Evidence
However, given that in much of everyday life, people are positioned simply as individuals (Fairclough, 2013), and given also that helping others in a disaster might incur a personal cost or risk for the individual, evidence of extensive social support among survivors raises the question: what is the social–psychological process explaining the prevalence of such solidarity behaviours in such events? — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 11
Categorization
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 11
Related
- Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.85)
- Disaster responders shape survivors’ help-giving through the example they set. (similarity 0.84)
- Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.84)
- Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.84)
- Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.83)
- Bystanders give less support after humanmade disasters than natural ones. (similarity 0.83)
- Watching others give help makes disaster survivors give help themselves via expected reciprocity. (similarity 0.83)
- Survivor reactions in emergencies spread to others as unintended social influence. (similarity 0.82)
- Mutual helping, not selfish flight, is the dominant emergency behaviour (similarity 0.81)
- Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.81)
- Post-disaster solidarity toward strangers stems from emergent shared social identity, not prior personal ties. (similarity 0.81)
- Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.81)
- Emergencies typically produce mutual aid and orderliness rather than competitive panic. (similarity 0.81)
- Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death (similarity 0.80)
- Pre-disaster social bonds cannot explain solidarity among strangers during crises. (similarity 0.80)