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The Temple University study on spatial reasoning was conducted by Melissa Terlecki et al.

Selected Bibliography

Air Accidents Investigations Branch. Report on the Accident to Boeing 737-236, G-BGJL at Manchester International Airport on 22 August 1985. Aircraft Incident Report No.8/88. London: UK Dept. of Transport, 1988.

Alcock, John. Animal Behavior. 7th ed. Sunderland, MA: 2001.

Artwohl, Alexis, and Loren W. Christensen. Deadly Force Encounters. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1997.

Asencio, Diego, and Nancy Asencio with Ron Tobias. Our Man Is Inside. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983.

Atkinson, Neil. “‘I Was Down for Only Seconds but When I Got Back Up She Had Gone.’” Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Jan. 21, 2006, 5.

Atwater, Brian F., Marco V. Cisternas, Joanne Bourgeois, Walter C. Dudley, James W. Hendley II, and Peter H. Stauffer. “Surviving a Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.” U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1187, Version 1.1 (2005).

Bateman, Major Robert L. “Rick Rescorla: Ia Drang Hero.” Vietnam, Jun. 2002.

Berkman, Lisa F. “The Role of Social Relations in Health Promotion.” Psychosomatic Medicine 57 (1995): 245–254.

Best, Richard L. “Tragedy in Kentucky,” Fire Journal (Jan. 1978).

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Blendon, Robert J. et al. “High-Risk Area Hurricane Survey.” Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security, 2006; http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hurricane/topline.doc/.

Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah. New York: Grove Press, 2006.

Brooks, Charles. Disaster at Lisbon: The Great Earthquake of 1755. Long Beach: Shangton Longley Press, 1994.

Bryan, John L. “Behavioral Response to Fire and Smoke.” The SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 3rd ed. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 2002.

Burton, Alan C. Man in a Cold Environment. New York: Hafner, 1955.

Cirillo, Jim. Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights: Lessons and Tales from a Modern-Day Gunfighter. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1996.

Clarke, Lee. “Panic: Myth or Reality?” Contexts 1, no. 3 (Fall 2002).

Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes’ Error. New York: Putnam, 1994.

Davis, Lynn E. et al. Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear and Biological Terrorist Attacks: A Quick Guide. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2003; www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_ reports/MR1731.1/.

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

“Diver Dies,” Sun-Sentinel, Jun. 1, 1993, 3B, Palm Beach Edition.

Donohoe, Cathryn. “Anniversary of Sorrow.” The Washington Times, Jan. 13, 1992, A1.

Downey, Cheryl. “Vacation Turned to Tragedy in World’s Deadliest Air Crash.” Orange County Register, Mar. 22, 1987, A1, Evening Edition.

Drabek, Thomas E. “Disaster Warning and Evacuation Responses by Private Business Employees.” Disasters 25, no. 1 (2001): 76–94.

Elliott, Ron. Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 1996.

Federation of American Scientists. Analysis of Ready.gov. Washington, D.C.: updated regularly. Accessed for this book in August 2007 at www.fas.org/reallyready/analysis.htm.

Final Report on the Capsizing on 28 September 1994 in the Baltic Sea of the Ro-Ro Passenger Vessel MV Estonia. Helsinki: The Joint Accident Investigation Commission of Estonia, Finland and Sweden and Edita Ltd., Dec. 1997.

Gershon, Robyn R. M. “A Roadmap for the Protection of Disaster Research Participants: Findings from the WTC Evacuation Study.” Paper presented at Columbia University’s monthly Institutional Review Board investigator meeting, New York, NY, March 20, 2007.

Gershon, Robyn R. M., Kristine A. Qureshi, Marcie S. Rubinand, and Victoria H. Raveis. World Trade Center Evacuation Study.[Quantitative results not yet published at time of book’s printing, but findings can be viewed here: www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/CPHP/wtc/.]

Gigerenzer, Gerd. “Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: Behavioral Reactions to Terrorist Attacks.” Risk