Constructing a Decision Making Model and Expanding It into Disaster Education

Abstract

In the study field of disaster education, it is indicated that the opportunities of being interest at a decision-making process in disaster prevention behavior were increasing. First, this paper reviews some previous studies about psychological theories, disaster prevention behavior models based on the theories, and an emergency decision making model from perspective of human information processing as a theoretical framework for predicting human behavior. In addition, the paper reviews some human cognitive characteristics distorting understanding and interpretation of disaster information. Second, the author proposes a new decision making model referring to these theoretical frameworks and explain the model with reference to some evacuation behavior studies. Finally, the author tries to expand the model for applying it to evacuation drills.