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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821240903321

Autore

Mawson Anthony R

Titolo

Mass panic and social attachment : the dynamics of human behavior / / Anthony R. Mawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007

ISBN

1-351-15318-8

1-281-09906-6

9786611099060

0-7546-8587-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

155.9/35

Soggetti

Collective behavior

Panic

Disasters - Psychological aspects

Attachment behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 nor flight, nor social breakdown, but



increased affiliation and camaraderie.