The Role of Searching in Shaping Reactions to Earthquake Risk Information

Mileti, Dennis S.; Darlington, JoAnne DeRouen

doi:10.1525/sp.1997.44.1.03x0214f

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“…Similarly, Farley (1998) showed that believing that one's neighbours were prepared predicted more adjustment, whereas the belief that neighbours did not know how to prepare led to less adjustment. Seismic adjustments increase when information sources providing explicit norms for adjustments are numerous, consistent and specific (Mileti and Darlington, 1997;Mileti and Fitzpatrick, 1992;Mileti and O'Brien, 1992). These results suggest that seismic adjustment is partly an outcome of the norms that people infer from the behaviour and communications of community members.…”

Section: Norms and Social Identitiesmentioning

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The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

Solberg

Rossetto

Joffe

2010

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The majority of people at risk from earthquakes do little or nothing to reduce their vulnerability. Over the past 40 years social scientists have tried to predict and explain levels of seismic hazard adjustment using models from behavioural sciences such as psychology. The present paper is the first to synthesise the major findings from the international literature on psychological correlates and causes of seismic adjustment at the level of the individual and the household. It starts by reviewing research on seismic risk perception. Next, it looks at norms and normative beliefs, focusing particularly on issues of earthquake protection responsibility and trust between risk stakeholders. It then considers research on attitudes towards seismic adjustment attributes, specifically beliefs about efficacy, control and fate. It concludes that an updated model of seismic adjustment must give the issues of norms, trust, power and identity a more prominent role. These have been only sparsely represented in the social psychological literature to date.

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Section: Norms and Social Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

Solberg

Rossetto

Joffe

2010

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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188

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“…Mileti and Darlington [20] analyzed the existence of an earthquake culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, years after the Loma Prieta 1989 earthquake. Earthquakes were not frequent in that specific area, but earthquake risk was known and local culture was abundant of accounts of the last and previous other earthquake disasters.…”

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Earthquake Culture: A Significant Element in Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Earthquake Disaster Risk Management

Ibrion¹

2018

Risk Assessment

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This book chapter brings to attention the dramatic impact of large earthquake disasters on local communities and society and highlights the necessity of building and enhancing the earthquake culture. Iran was considered as a research case study and fifteen large earthquake disasters in Iran were investigated and analyzed over more than a centurytime period. It was found that the earthquake culture in Iran was and is still conditioned by many factors or parameters which are not integrated and do not work harmoniously towards building and sustaining an earthquake culture in Iran. A historical possibility of an earthquake culture in Iran was mainly severed by culture, especially beliefs, strong geopolitics in Iran and in Middle East, a complex and dynamic political landscape in Iran, foreign invasions and wars. However, there is a great potential in Iran for the earthquake culture to be built and developed. The earthquake culture is recommended to be integrated within earthquake disaster risk assessment and earthquake disasters risk management studies which are performed and carried out in Iran and other countries at seismic risk. The contribution of this book chapter is towards the earthquake disasters studies and policies for the countries at earthquake risk.Keywords: earthquake, earthquake culture, earthquake disaster risk assessment, earthquake disaster risk management, Iran, earthquake disaster risk reduction

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“…Lindell and Whitney (2000) showed that perceptions of different preparedness measures varied and that these perceptions were the strongest predictor of adoption. Studies by Mileti and Darlington (1997) and Becker, Paton, Johnston, and Ronan (2012) examined the personal and social processes influencing protective decisions utilizing Interactionist Theories (see Appendix 2). It was found that people interact with others to ascribe meaning to risk information before adopting protective behaviors (Mileti & Darlington, 1997) and Becker et al (2012) showed that this is not a linear process, as cognitive and social factors mediate (e.g.…”

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“…Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1998): Bandura posits that people's beliefs about their efficacy are influenced through four mechanisms: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and social and somatic states (essentially the stress reaction), which further influence efficacy beliefs. Interactionist Theories: Mileti and Darlington (1997) and Becker et al (2012) refer to interactionist theories in addition to social--cognitive behavioral theories for explaining preparedness behaviors. These theories investigate how people make sense or meaning out of the information they are exposed to and how this translates into actions.…”

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Operationalizing risk perception and preparedness behavior research for a multi-hazard context

Shreve

Begg

Fordham

et al. 2016

Environmental Hazards

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Increasingly, citizens are being asked to take a more active role in disaster risk reduction (DRR), as decentralization of hazard governance has shifted greater responsibility for hazard preparedness actions onto individuals. Simultaneously, the taxonomy of hazards considered for DRR has expanded to include medical and social crises alongside natural hazards. Risk perception research emerged to support decision--makers with understanding how people characterize and evaluate different hazards to anticipate behavioral response and guide risk communication. Since its inception, the risk perception concept has been incorporated into many behavioral theories, which have been applied to examine preparedness for numerous hazard types. Behavioral theories have had moderate success in predicting or explaining preparedness behaviors; however, they are typically applied to a single hazard type and there is a gap in understanding which theories (if any) are suited for examining multiple hazard types simultaneously. This paper first reviews meta--analyses of behavioral theories to better understand performance. Universal lessons learnt are summarized for survey design. Second, theoretically based preparedness studies for floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and terrorism are reviewed to assess the conceptual requirements for a 'multi--hazard' preparedness approach. The development of an online preparedness self--assessment and learning platform is discussed.

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The Role of Searching in Shaping Reactions to Earthquake Risk Information

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The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

Earthquake Culture: A Significant Element in Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Earthquake Disaster Risk Management

Operationalizing risk perception and preparedness behavior research for a multi-hazard context

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