Imagining worse than reality: comparing beliefs and intentions between disaster evacuees and survey respondents

Reinhardt, Gina Yannitell

doi:10.1080/13669877.2015.1017827

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“…Additionally, the disaster experience itself is associated with higher levels of political trust. Building on Reinhardt (, ) and Atkeson and Maestas (), we have further reason to explore the effects of media on political trust, particularly with respect to observers. For public officials, it may prove beneficial to emphasize disaster management successes by highlighting the survivor experience when seeking further approval and cooperation.…”

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“…With climate change increasing the incidence of extreme weather events, we can expect an increase in the incidence of disasters and a need for better understanding of disaster behavior and reactions. And with perceptions of disaster effects increasing even beyond the reality of extreme weather events (Reinhardt, ), the influence of intersectionality on perceptions becomes even more salient.…”

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“…Studies show that direct experience surviving a disaster can make people evaluate managers more positively than observing the same disaster because personal contact supersedes media coverage as a driver of updating beliefs. When people experience a disaster positively they are more likely to exhibit an increase in political trust than when they observe the same disaster from afar (Reinhardt, , ).…”

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“…Additionally, though it is true that U.S. media coverage reveals the racial makeup of the social and economic classes most damaged by critical events (Bobo, ; Falk, Hunt, and Hunt, ), and portrays disaster survivors in positive or negative lights according to race (Sommers et al., ), biases in the media are less likely to affect the political trust of disaster survivors than of disaster observers (Reinhardt , ). In the disaster context, education and knowledge are linked to both types of communication about the event (Wehde, Pudlo, and Robinson, ) and sustained public attention during the event (see Yeo and Knox, ).…”

Section: Political Trust and Disastersmentioning

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The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

Reinhardt

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. Groups defined by race and ideology are well-known predictors of interpersonal and political trust, but gender-based effects are undecided. I investigate whether disaster experience conditions a difference in political trust between women and men. Methods. Examining the hurricane data set of U.S. public opinion, I analyze intersectionality's influence on disaster-based political trust with a three-way interaction between race, class, and gender. Results. Among disaster survivors, black women trust less than all other race-gender groups, and white men trust the most. The difference between black and white women survivors' political trust is attenuated by education. Education exacerbates race-based political trust among observers. Among observers, there is not a gender-based distinction. Conclusion. Disasters create new identities based on shared experience, and offer a moment in time that illustrates how trust varies along gender-race-classdisaster dimensions. Knowing how trust differs according to intersectionality allows managers to manage critical events better.

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Section: Political Trust and Disastersmentioning

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Section: Political Trust and Disastersmentioning

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The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

Reinhardt

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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“…This context, in turn, alters the way they attribute blame, evaluate government, and support policy proposals that emerge after a catastrophe. Previous work has found this to be true both for those who live through disasters, and for those who observe disasters from afar (Reinhardt, , ).…”

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Expanding Social Science Through Disaster Studies

Reinhardt

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2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. This article provides an overview of how the interdisciplinary field of disaster studies contributes to the social sciences. Methods. The following themes are explored in relation to the articles contained in the special issue: disasters are social and political phenomena that generate policy change, disasters reflect and affect democratic governance, and disasters reveal shared experience and collective identity. Results. Disaster studies bridge the social sciences theoretically and methodologically. Given the scope of disaster impacts-across social, political, economic, ecological, and infrastructure spheres-and the policy response they garner involving public, private, and civic actors, they offer a lens by which to see society and politics in a way that no other critical events can. Conclusion. Disaster studies offer important applications of social science theories and concepts that expand the field, broaden our reach as social scientists, and deepen our understanding of fundamental social processes and behaviors in meaningful ways.According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, 2018), disasters in the United States with price tags over $1 billion have risen from two per year in 1980 to more than 10 per year in 2017. For the more than 200 events NOAA has tracked and documented, the United States has sustained over $1.5 trillion in damages and costs. Increases in the frequency of extreme-weather events have combined with 24-hour media cycles to bring disasters to the forefront of domestic and global policy agendas. Amidst this attention, social scientists explore disaster-prompted research puzzles by engaging in the interdisciplinary field of disaster studies.Natural and engineering sciences have a part to play in disaster studies, though a disaster is more than physical characteristics of a natural or technical hazard event. A disaster is spurred by a critical hazard event, but it is characterized by the social disruption it causes (Quarantelli, Lagadec, and Boin, 2007; Reinhardt 2015b). Disasters are socially constructed, occurring only when hazards intersect with social vulnerabilities, political institutions, and individual perceptions (Paton, 2006). Social sciences, fundamentally concerned with understanding motives and reasons for action (Winch, 2015), are therefore ideal for studying the social, economic, and political causes and consequences of disasters.With this special issue, we make the case that disaster studies is an interdisciplinary field not only relevant to, but important for the development of, the social sciences. The articles herein demonstrate how the study of disasters helps us apply core social science theories to expand our understanding of fundamental human behaviors, highlighting disasters as human-centric phenomena that permeate cross-disciplinary boundaries. Both separately and collectively, we present a picture of disasters as social and political phenomena

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Investigating Psychosocial Correlates of Social Change

Sehra,

Mishra

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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Imagining worse than reality: comparing beliefs and intentions between disaster evacuees and survey respondents

Cited by 14 publications

References 78 publications

The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

The Intersectionality of Disasters’ Effects on Trust in Public Officials

Expanding Social Science Through Disaster Studies

Investigating Psychosocial Correlates of Social Change

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