The functional adaptiveness of emotional responses to disasters: Does horror facilitate post-disaster community rebuilding by motivating pro-social affiliative behaviors and attitudes?

Important progress occurred in field research conducted in areas struck by the 2011 tsunami, which narrowed the project's focus from post-disaster behaviors in general to specifically focus on the Japanese practice of 災害伝承 following disasters. Hypotheses have been refined, focusing on the effects of memorials on sense of risk and security (mediated by emotion), to be tested this year. A collaboration was struck with a photojournalist who has covered the tsunami reconstruction since 2012, and has provided photos to use as ecologically valid stimuli to test hypotheses regarding disaster memorials. This conceptual shift is expected to make the research results more applicable to real-world contexts by showing how post-disaster memorials can protect communities from disaster.

Important progress occurred in field research conducted in areas struck by the 2011 tsunami, which narrowed the project's focus from post-disaster behaviors in general to specifically focus on the Japanese practice of 災害伝承 following disasters. Hypotheses have been refined, focusing on the effects of memorials on sense of risk and security (mediated by emotion), to be tested this year. A collaboration was struck with a photojournalist who has covered the tsunami reconstruction since 2012, and has provided photos to use as ecologically valid stimuli to test hypotheses regarding disaster memorials. This conceptual shift is expected to make the research results more applicable to real-world contexts by showing how post-disaster memorials can protect communities from disaster.