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Information Seekers in the Aftermath of Technological Disaster at Three Mile Island 1
Author(s) -
PrinceEmbury Sandra
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00537.x
Subject(s) - mile , normative , seekers , accident (philosophy) , faith , psychology , sample (material) , social psychology , political science , geography , law , philosophy , chemistry , theology , geodesy , epistemology , chromatography
Information seekers attending the TMI Public Health and Environmental Information Series six years after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident were found to be more educated, less worried, more cynical of experts, more likely to report disturbances in concentration, and more likely to be male than a normative sample of area residents. Course participants are described as seeking cognitive solutions and as having an underlying agenda of restoring lost faith in experts. Those who had evacuated at the time of the accident manifested the most psychological symptoms among course participants.