Shared fate during disasters is almost always grounded in a shared threat of death.

Evidence

In almost all cases, the sense of shared fate is described in terms of the shared threat of death. The only exception was the survivor involved in the train accident, for whom it was less obvious, though still possible, that passengers were in danger of being killed. However, the common experience was still enough to bring people together in a way that did not happen on normal train journeys: 6 TA: Oh yeah of course I I get on the train everyday. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 71

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 71
• XREF: connects to: Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104; Disasters forge new social bonds via shared external threat. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 16; Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 67 (+5 more)

Related

• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.88)
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.88)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. (similarity 0.86)
• Disasters forge new social bonds via shared external threat. (similarity 0.86)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.85)
• Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death (similarity 0.84)
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help (similarity 0.84)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.83)
• Greater perceived threat of death produces more solidarity among strangers, not more competition. (similarity 0.83)
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers. (similarity 0.82)
• Emergency crowds can generate new social bonds among strangers. (similarity 0.82)
• Most survivors in this mass emergency were strangers to one another (similarity 0.81)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.81)
• Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. #corroborates (0.90) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 47
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. #corroborates (0.90) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 74
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters #expands (0.90) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 15
• 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
• Disasters forge new social bonds via shared external threat. #corroborates (0.85) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 16
• Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death #qualifies (0.80) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 67
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification #complicates (0.80) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 111
• Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal #complicates (0.75)