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The decision to evacuate: a study of the motivations which contribute to evacuation in the event of fire

โœ Scribed by David Tong; David Canter

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
793 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0379-7112

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โœฆ Synopsis

This paper reviews the literature relevant to the issue of motivation to evacuate a building in the event of fire. Two traditional approaches to evacuation research, the physical science and 'panic' approaches are considered critically. It is argued that they lead to a mechanistic explanation of motivation. The findings of three recent psychological studies are then presented. These introduce a model of human action which illustrates that evacuation is not motivated by discrete factors but is derived from information processing and decision making. The implications of this new analysis for future research are discussed.

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