Panic: Myth or Reality?
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- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Contexts
- Vol. 1 (3) , 21-26
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.3.21
Abstract
Images of group panic and collective chaos are ubiquitous in Hollywood movies, mainstream media and the rhetoric of politicians. But, contrary to these popular portrayals, group panic is relatively rare. In disasters people are often models of civility and cooperation.Keywords
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