Book excerpt: Excerpt from Human Behavior in Extreme Situations: A Survey of the Literature and Suggestions for Further Research Designed to make the findings of disaster research more accessible to research workers and to agencies and officials concerned with disaster problems. It includes studies which have been completed for some time but which have not: previously been published, as well as recently-completed studies. The study reported herein was supported by the Committee under Contract Number da-49 007-md-256 between the Department of the Army and the National Academy of sciences-national Research Council. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.