Glynis M. M. Breakwell, Daniel B. B. Wright

Public Crises and Personal Threat (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for anyone who wants to understand more about how people think, feel, and behave in public crises. It aims to provide insight into the help people need in crises. The book shows how psychology, and in particular social psychology, can be applied to an area of great, and increasing, societal importance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529677379
• Artikelnr.: 72256360

Autorenporträt

Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath in the Department of Psychology and has Visiting Professorships at Imperial College, London and the University of Surrey. Her research focuses upon identity process theory, social influence and social representation processes, leadership in complex organisations, and the psychology of risk management, perception, and communication. She has published more than 20 books, several of which are on research methods. She has been an adviser to both public and private sector organisations on the use of psychological methods and theories, especially concerning responses to public crises and major emergencies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Public crisis? What crisis?
Chapter 2: Public crises are individualised
Chapter 3: Personal threat and thinking
Chapter 4: Emotions: public and personal
Chapter 5: Habits and habituation in public crises
Chapter 6: Attitudes, beliefs and values
Chapter 7: Social support during public crises
Chapter 8: Group dynamics in public crises
Chapter 9: Crises and trust
Chapter 10: Identity resilience and personal threat
Chapter 11: Beyond risk, post-catastrophe threat
Chapter 12: Nexus of crisis reactions