Abstract:

I have spent most of my professional life since the 1950s doing research on the social aspects of disasters.  This social science research in which I have participated, is of course part of a much larger body of studies undertaken in the last 40 years, could be characterized in a whole variety of ways as tofindings, motifs, implications, uses, etc.  But there is one theyne that runs through the bulk of the work that has been done up to now: according to researchfindings much ofwhat is generally believed about ditaster related individual and group behavior is not true or correct.  As I and others have phrased it we are embedded in a great number of misconceptions or myths about behavior in disasters.  This di.vaster mythology clearly does not make for effective planning for or managing of such crisis occasions.

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