Experimental Studies on Perceived Danger of Unsafe Evacuation Behavior Seen in Knowledge-to-Action Gap

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  • Tanaka Koji
    School of Knowledge Science,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Umeno Kohei
    Graduate School of Informatics,Kansai University
  • Ikeda Mitsuru
    School of Knowledge Science,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Hori Masahiro
    Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University

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  • 知識と行動の不一致に見られる不安全避難行動の危険認知に関する心理実験的検討
  • チシキ ト コウドウ ノ フイッチ ニ ミラレル フアンゼン ヒナン コウドウ ノ キケン ニンチ ニ カンスル シンリ ジッケンテキ ケントウ

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It is not difficult for residents, for the most cases, to know the knowledge of disaster<br>prevention, while it is quite difficult for them to take appropriate evacuation behavior.<br>For example, it is easy to know why flooded underpasses should not be gone through by<br>cars. It is just because cars would be submerged and got stuck on the way. However,<br>people sometimes fail to apply such knowledge to take an appropriate action, due to<br>the so-called knowledge-to-action gap. In the present study, a preliminary investiga-<br>tion and two experiments were conducted. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify<br>the kinds of unsafe evacuation behavior with reference to newspaper articles on flood<br>disaster over the past 15 years. The two experiments are to examine if the knowledge-to-<br>action gap can be confirmed by means of paper-and-pencil tests consisting of knowledge<br>and intention tasks. Preliminary investigation revealed ten kinds of unsafe evacuation<br>behaviors in flood disaster. Experiments 1 and 2 indicated that participants take unsafe<br>evacuation behaviors even though they have appropriate knowledge. In addition, the<br>experiment 2 indicated that they perceived danger in unsafe evacuation behaviors and<br>flood disaster situation.These results demonstrate an aspect of unsafe evacuation be-<br>havior, and the importance of disaster prevention education, which has to be carefully<br>designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and action for disaster prevention.

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