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The core of existing knowledge concerning disaster reactions resides in the recorded experience of World War II. In contrast to the sparse reports on human reactions to floods, conflagrations, hurricanes, industrial explosions, and other peacetime catastrophes, the literature on psychological effects of high-explosive and incendiary raids is voluminous. From their recent wartime observations, many social scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts have given detailed accounts of the way civilians felt and behaved when their community was subjected to attack from the air. Shortly after the end of the war, a group of American social psychologists in the Morale Division of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey conducted large-scale surveys of civilian attitudes among cross sections of the bombed populations of Germany and Japan. In addition, the extensive files of official intelligence reports dealing with civilian reactions to the air war were examined and analyzed. Other USSBS divisions also collected relevant behavioral data on psychiatric casualties, absenteeism, crime, subversion, etc. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)