Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others.

Evidence

Moreover, this experience of unity seemed to be associated with social support. In the secondary sources, 14 of the 26 survivors who reported feeling unity also reported helping (each more than once). Of our 11 respondents in the primary sources who described experiencing unity, 10 described helping others. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the solidarity-and-empathy literature on shared identity (e.g., Drury’s own earlier work on crowd behaviour at Hillsborough). — connects to: People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 14; Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 67; Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 61 (+8 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 72

Related

• Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. (similarity 0.91)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.91)
• Survivors helped others even while still perceiving a real danger of death (similarity 0.90)
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help (similarity 0.90)
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.89)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.89)
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.89)
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.89)
• Emergency services overwhelmed after sudden disasters make mutual aid essential for survival. (similarity 0.89)
• Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action. (similarity 0.88)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.88)
• Emergency responders should deliberately cultivate shared identity with survivors. (similarity 0.88)
• Mutual helping, not selfish flight, is the dominant emergency behaviour (similarity 0.87)
• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. #corroborates (0.92) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 61
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help #corroborates (0.82) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 99
• People become more empathetic and resourceful after disasters, not selfish #corroborates (0.82) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 123
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. #expands (0.80) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support #corroborates (0.80) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 73
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. #expands (0.74) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 27
• Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action. #expands (0.72) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 22