- Author
- Loftus, E. F.
- Title
- Words that Could Save Your Life.
- Coporate
- Washington Univ., Seattle
- Journal
- Psychology Today, Vol. 13, No. 9, 102-137, November 1979
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- evacuation | subways | 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."