Benefits of social networks to disaster response questioned

Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger and spread misinformation...

Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger and spread misinformation. Those may sound like behaviors associated with the current pandemic, but they actually surfaced in experiments on how social networks function in emergencies.

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