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Simulating Dynamical Features of Escape Panic [PDF]

Nature, 2000
One of the most disastrous forms of collective human behaviour is the kind of crowd stampede induced by panic, often leading to fatalities as people are crushed or trampled.
A Mintz, BD Jacobs, D Elliott, D Helbing, D Helbing, DE Wolf, Dirk Helbing, E Quarantelli, GH Ristow, GK Still, HH Kelley, HH Kelley, Illés Farkas, KH Drager, M Ebihara, NR Johnson, R Brown, RA Smith, T Vicsek, Tamás Vicsek, U Weidmann, WM Predtetschenski   +21 more
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The Impact of Social Media on Panic During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iraqi Kurdistan: Online Questionnaire Study [PDF]

JMIR Mental Health, 2020
Background: In the first few months of 2020, information and news reports about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were rapidly published and shared on social media and social networking sites.
Ahmad, Araz Ramazan, Murad, Hersh Rasool
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The Determinants of Panic Buying during COVID-19

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unmatched level of panic buying globally, a type of herd behavior whereby consumers buy an uncommonly huge amount of products because of a perception of scarcity.
Grace Chua, Kum Fai Yuen, Xueqin Wang, Y. Wong   +3 more
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Mental Health Strategies to Combat the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Beyond Paranoia and Panic.

Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2020
1Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore 2Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 3Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore ...
Cyrus S. H. Ho, C. Chee, R. Ho
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Antecedents and consequences of panic buying: The case of COVID‐19

, 2021
Panic buying emerged as a significant phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic This study draws on the scarcity principle, crowd psychology and contagion theory to investigate the antecedents and consequences of panic buying The antecedents included in ...
C. Prentice, Sara Quach, Park Thaichon
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The Psychological Causes of Panic Buying Following a Health Crisis

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Attributed to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, panic buying is now a frequent occurrence in many countries, leading to stockouts and supply chain disruptions. Consequently, it has received much attention from academics and the retail industry.
Kum Fai Yuen, Xueqin Wang, Fei Ma, Kevin X. Li   +3 more
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The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak

Journal of Travel Medicine, 2020
We need to rapidly detect and respond to public rumours, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours around COVID-19 and control measures. The creation of an interactive platform and dashboard to provide real-time alerts of rumours and concerns about ...
A. Depoux, S. Martin, E. Karafillakis, R. Preet, A. Wilder-Smith, H. Larson   +5 more
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Cognitive behavior therapy in panic disorder and comorbid major depression - A naturalistic study [PDF]

, 2000
Background: There is a lack of evidence about the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapies (CBT) in settings of routine clinical care as well as in the treatment of panic and comorbid disorders. Methods: We investigated a group-oriented CBT approach
Auer, Claudia, Fichter, Manfred M., Rief, Winfried, Trenkamp, Susanne   +3 more
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Factors Influencing Public Panic During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been regarded as a public health emergency that caused a considerable degree of public panic (such as anxiety and insomnia) during its early stage.
Xiangtian Nie, Kai Feng, Shengnan Wang, Yongxin Li   +3 more
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Moral panic and social theory: Beyond the heuristic [PDF]

, 2010
Copyright @ 2011 by International Sociological Association.Critcher has recently conceptualized moral panic as a heuristic device, or 'ideal type'. While he argues that one still has to look beyond the heuristic, despite a few exceptional studies there ...
Amanda Rohloff, Bloyce, Daniel, Brown, Sheila, Cohen, Stanley, Cohen, Stanley, Critcher, Chas, Critcher, Chas, De Young, Mary, Elias, Norbert, Elias, Norbert, Elias, Norbert, Elias, Norbert, Elias, Norbert, Fletcher, Jonathan, Goode, Eric, Hunt, Alan, Jenkins, Philip, Jewkes, Yvonne, Kilminster, Richard, McRobbie, Angela, Mennell, Stephen, Muncie, John, Pratt, John, Rohloff, Amanda, Rohloff, Amanda, Sarah Wright, Thompson, Kenneth, Young, Jock   +27 more
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