Changes in perceived vulnerability following natural disaster

Impacts of disaster on optimistic biases about personal risk and on a wide range of other cognitions and affects were investigated. Residents of communities hit by severe tornadoes who suffered no damage or injury (N=724) and residents of control communities (N=287) were interviewed shortly after th...

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Published inJournal of social and clinical psychology Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 372 - 395
Main Authors WEINSTEIN, Neil D, LYON, Judith E, ROTHMAN, Alexander J, CUITE, Cara L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Guilford 01.10.2000
Guilford Press
Subjects
Adult
Alaska
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Changes
Cognition
Disaster recovery
Disasters
Earthquakes
Medical sciences
Mental health
Natural Disasters
Optimism
Perceived threats
Perception
Perceptions
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk
Risk assessment
Social psychology
Survivor
Tennessee
Texas
Threat
Tornadoes
Victimology
Victims
Vulnerability
United States > US
New Jersey
Human
Affect affectivity
Self evaluation
Natural hazard
Natural disaster
Cognition
Vulnerability
Psychological effect
Victimology
Optimism pessimism
Clinical investigation
Tornado
Cognitive bias
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Summary:Impacts of disaster on optimistic biases about personal risk and on a wide range of other cognitions and affects were investigated. Residents of communities hit by severe tornadoes who suffered no damage or injury (N=724) and residents of control communities (N=287) were interviewed shortly after the events.
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ISSN:0736-7236
1943-2771
DOI:10.1521/jscp.2000.19.3.372