Read Chapter 1 (Understanding Public Response to Alerts and Warnings) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018) book Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Current Knowledge and Future Research.
After reading, answer the questions below:
Using specific citations from the reading, describe some of the activities that people generally engage in after receiving warning information and before initiating protective actions.
Is it a stimulus/response relationship (immediate compliance with information) or a process that results in action or inaction? Explain.
Explain how these processes likely worked in an event such as the mistaken Hawaii Missile warning
Describe some of the activities that people generally engage in after receiving warning information and before initiating protective actions.
