研究發現：災難經歷能給予人更多安全感

A brush with disaster can lull one into a sense of security instead of prompting one to take precautions, US researchers say.

Lead author Robin Dillon and Catherine Tinsley of Georgetown University say researchers compared people's choices about purchasing flood insurance after some had experienced a close call with flood damage, while others had not.

Both participants from the general public and experts in the fields of Risk analysis and natural disasters who had experienced a close call chose less insurance than people who had not experienced a a brush with disaster.

In the second part of the study, participants were queried about whether to evacuate from a hurricane. The same findings emerged - if the person had previously had escaped disaster by chance, that person was less likely to be willing to evacuate when faced with potential hurricane weather.

The findings are published in the journal Risk Analysis.

美國研究人員近日表示，經歷一次災難並不會讓人提心吊膽未雨綢繆，反而會讓人覺得更有安全感。

來自喬治城大學的研究員羅賓和凱瑟琳稱，就購買洪水保險意願方面，他們對從洪水災害中僥倖逃生者和從未經歷過災害者進行了比較。

無論是普通大衆，還是自然災害風險分析領域的專家，但凡此人經歷過死裏逃生，其選擇的保額就會低於從未經歷過災害者所選擇的保額。

而在實驗的第二部分中，研究人員詢問受試者是否願意在颶風來臨前撤離。結果相同——如果受試者之前曾僥倖逃脫，那麼面對可能發生的颶風襲擊他會更傾向於留下來。

這些實驗結果刊登在《風險分析》雜誌上。