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SUBMITTER: Jia JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5228631 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jia Jayson S JS Jia Jianmin J Hsee Christopher K CK Shiv Baba B
Psychological science 20161125 1
Understanding how human populations naturally respond to and cope with risk is important for fields ranging from psychology to public health. We used geophysical and individual-level mobile-phone data (mobile-apps, telecommunications, and Web usage) of 157,358 victims of the 2013 Ya'an earthquake to diagnose the effects of the disaster and investigate how experiencing real risk (at different levels of intensity) changes behavior. Rather than limiting human activity, higher earthquake intensity r ...[more]