Talk:Panic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, which collaborates on Psychology and related subjects on Wikipedia. To participate, help improve this article or visit the project page for details on the project. Start This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it needs.

Contents 1 Disambiguation requested 2 Etymology 3 Some citations required 4 Panic myth

[edit] Disambiguation requested

I suggest that a disambiguation page be added to distinguish psychological panic from financial panics. See List of Recessions for the financial panic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.238.22.62 (talk) 21:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree on this. Maybe, this article should be moved to Mass_Panic and Panic should disambiguate Panic_(Psychology), Mass_Panic, etc.

--HubertKluepfel (talk) 14:37, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

Added the etymology of the word. --Eniac turing 13:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some citations required

Some of the claims were a bit too specific and questionable that it's safe to cite these. The first is how prehistoric man would scare the animals to where they would jump off the cliffs and the other being how the columns are a factor for evacuations. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BirdKr (talk • contribs) 01:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Panic myth

I have placed a disputed tag on the article.

Most researchers of human behaviour (e.g. in crowds and fire) would dispute that panic is a useful construct to discuss human behaviour. Some of the most distinguished researchers in the field have looked into the question and have concluded that panic is seldom seen, especially in the context of human behaviour in disasters, fire, etc. This includes the official investigation into the WTC bombings and Sept 11. For references see Don't Panic by Chertkoff and Kushigian. Quarantelli's articles on Panic, especially in Sociology and Social Research in 1957, and his article with Dynes in 1972 in Psychology Today. For more recent discussion see Proulx in Fire Protection Engineering #16 (2002).

This is directly opposite to what is being stated here on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is doing no-one a favour by reinforcing this myth. Look for articles by fire and emergency researchers, not articles by people in other fields who may simply be reinforcing a popular stereotype. The media uses inflammatory language, and the movies like drama, but the reality does not seem to be like this. -- cmh^TC 18:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Here is a link to Proulx's article (see p23-25) -- cmh^TC 18:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

The dispute raised by the previous comment is strongly supported by the references. "Panic" or "Mass panic" is not considered a helpful notion in the context of mass behavior, crowd dynamics (including crowd management and crowd control), or evacuation (and its analysis, simulation, improvement). --HubertKluepfel (talk) 14:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)