- Author
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Loftus, E. F.
- Title
- Words that Could Save Your Life.
- Coporate
- Washington Univ., Seattle
- Journal
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Psychology Today,
Vol. 13,
No. 9,
102-137,
November 1979
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
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evacuation
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subways
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tunnels
|
cables
|
fire fighters
|
deaths
- Identifiers
- BART subway train; San Francisco Bay, subway; firemen
- Abstract
- What should you do if caught in a subway, high-rise building, or hospital when fire breaks out? If you don't get proper directions, you may panic. Only recently and not without some initial skepticism-have psychologists been called on to prepare "evacuation messages."