The Evolutionary Psychology of Emergency Behavior:

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K12837
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Yamaguchi University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAHASHI MASAHITO 山口大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60260676)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 緊急避難行動 / ヒューリスティック / ヒューマン・エラー / 東日本大震災 / スカウティング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Emergency actions will be taken unconsciously and automatically based on heuristic judgments. From the view point of evolutionary psychology, we have studied the evacuation behavior in the great east Japan earthquake. As the results, gathering information, caring family member, and In-group mission brought about the delay of evacuation. And scouting behavior such as "go to watch our rice field" are seen in male of 30's and 60's.

Free Research Field

社会学