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.

Discussion Question

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

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