- Author
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Keating, J. P.
- Title
- Myth of Panic.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Journal,
Vol. 76,
No. 3,
57-58,60-61,147,
May 1982
- Keywords
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panic
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human behavior
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fire safety
- Identifiers
- behavior in fires
- Abstract
- During a literature review on behavior in fires that Elizabeth Loftus and I completed in 1974, once fact became depressingly clear. The most striking feature gleaned from the review of psychological material related to people's behavior in fire was the dearth of relevant data; this fact was amazing.