Disaster response Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Problematic individual and collective responses== {{Further|Normalcy bias}} Previous experiences with [[false alarm]]s cause some people to ignore legitimate danger signals, such as a fire alarm. [[Amanda Ripley]] points out that (contrary to many portrayals in movies) among the general public in fires and large-scale disasters, there is a remarkable lack of [[panic]] and sometimes dangerous denial of, lack of reaction to, or rationalization of warning signs that should be obvious. She says that this is often attributed to local or national character, but appears to be universal, and is typically followed by consultations with nearby people when the signals finally get enough attention. Disaster survivors advocate training everyone to recognize warning signs and practice responding.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fema.gov/blog/preptalks-amanda-ripley-unthinkable-lessons-survivors |title=PrepTalks: Amanda Ripley "The Unthinkable: Lessons from Survivors" |date=29 January 2018 |author=Amanda Ripley}}</ref> A study published in 2020 showed that [[social network]]s can function poorly as pathways for inconvenient truths that people would rather ignore and that the interplay between communication and action may depend on the structure of social networks. It also showed that communication networks suppress necessary "evacuations" in test-scenarios because of spontaneous and diffuse emergence of false reassurance when compared to groups of isolated individuals and that larger networks with a smaller proportion of informed subjects suffered more damage due to human-caused [[misinformation]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Evidence of large groups responding more slowly to crises due to false information |url=https://phys.org/news/2020-05-evidence-large-groups-slowly-crises.html |access-date=13 June 2020 |work=phys.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shirado |first1=Hirokazu |last2=Crawford |first2=Forrest W. |last3=Christakis |first3=Nicholas A. |title=Collective communication and behaviour in response to uncertain 'Danger' in network experiments |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |date=27 May 2020 |volume=476 |issue=2237 |pages=20190685 |doi=10.1098/rspa.2019.0685 |pmid=32518501 |pmc=7277132 |bibcode=2020RSPSA.47690685S |doi-access=free }} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref> Following disaster, collective processing of emotions leads to greater resilience and community engagement.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kieft|first1=J.|last2=Bendell|first2=J|year=2021|title=The responsibility of communicating difficult truths about climate influenced societal disruption and collapse: an introduction to psychological research |url=https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5950 |journal=Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) Occasional Papers |volume=7|pages=1β39}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page