Emergency evacuations, panic, and social psychology

Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-129

  Aguirre, Benigno E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; NOTE; PANIC; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MASS BEHAVIOR; PANIC DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 22944479346     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2005.68.2.121     Document Type: Note

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