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SUMMARY:Impact of Negative Emotion, and Social Influence on Pre-evacuation
  Decision-making
DESCRIPTION:Johnson Adetooto and Seonho Woo (Purdue University Indianapoli
 s), Myounghoon Jeon (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University),
  Young-Jun Son (Purdue University), and Behzad Esmaeili (Purdue University
  Indianapolis)\n\nPre-evacuation delays emerge when fear, cognitive anchor
 ing, and social cues disrupt attention to hazard signals, creating a gap b
 etween threat awareness and action. This laboratory study investigates how
  these factors influence evacuation behavior by combining fear induction (
 written recall of past experiences), eye-tracking measurement, and control
 led social influence. Participants (N = 22) engaged in an incentivized tas
 k before an unannounced fire alarm, while confederates either evacuated or
  stayed. Results revealed: (1) social influence strongly shaped decisions,
  with participants less likely to evacuate when confederates stayed; (2) t
 ask anchoring delayed alarm recognition; and (3) although fear levels rose
  significantly after induction, fear did not significantly predict evacuat
 ion behavior. Eye-tracking analysis showed that evacuators had fewer fixat
 ions and saccades, suggesting quicker visual disengagement from the task a
 nd faster attention to safety-relevant cues. These findings indicate that 
 evacuation is shaped more by attentional dynamics and social context than 
 by emotional arousal alone. Practically, the study supports using dynamic 
 alert systems to interrupt attentional tunneling and incorporating trainin
 g that addresses the influence of social cues during emergencies.\n\n
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