Public Crises and Personal Threat

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. Daniel B. Wright is Professor of Educational Assessment, in the Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His interests are in methodology and applied cognitive science.

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