Fear-related behaviors in situations of mass threat.

摘要: This Disaster Health Briefing focuses on the work of an expanding team researchers that is exploring dynamics fear-related behaviors in situations mass threat. Fear-related are individual or collective and actions initiated response to fear reactions triggered by a perceived threat actual exposure potentially traumatizing event. Importantly, modulate future risk harm. case scenarios presented illustrate how operate when traumatic event threatens endangers physical and/or psychological health, wellbeing, integrity population. may exacerbate harm, leading severe sometimes deadly consequences as exemplified Ebola pandemic West Africa. Alternatively, be channeled constructive life-saving manner motivate protective mitigate prevent depending upon nature scenario confronting The interaction between related type, magnitude, population encounter with hazard. expression FRBs, ranging from exacerbation reduction, also influenced such properties predictability, familiarity, controllability, preventability, intentionality.