Mass panic and social attachment the dynamics of human behavior

Anthony Mawson provides a comprehensive review and synthesis of the mass panic and disaster literature and offers a social attachment model that recognizes the gregarious nature of human beings and the primacy of attachments. He argues that the typical response to threat and danger is neither fight...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mawson, Anthony R. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate c2007.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798116506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Current theories of panic
  • Theories of affiliation
  • The theory of walters and parke
  • Protection from predators : Bowlby's theory
  • Arousal and stimulation-seeking overview
  • Cognitive maps and susceptibility to influence
  • Affiliation as stimulation-seeking : a theory of attachment formation
  • Stimulation-seeking and group dynamics
  • Panic as stimulation-seeking
  • Aggression
  • The social context of panic
  • Panic flight as affiliative behavior
  • Review of current theories of panic
  • Havens of safety
  • Panic as stimulation-avoidance
  • Two systems of arousal
  • Towards a neurophysiological theory of emotional behavior
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Understanding mass panic and other collective responses to disaster : update.