It's very likely that there will be some delays.
It's very likely that people will wonder what's going on if they here an alarm,
they will talk to one another about what's going on,
especially in a movie theater, as this might show here, or
a show, some people might actually say, well, do you know what that is?
Is that a part of the show?
Is that a part of the act?
Is it part of the movie?
Is this really going on?
And is this something that I really need to do something about?
And, especially, if you're sitting in a movie theater,
you've paid to see the movie or you've paid to see the show,
It's going to take a little bit of prompting from the building alarm message,
or even having someone come in from the management of the theater,
and actually prompt people to move.
Because we've paid for the movie, we're sitting down, we're watching it, and
in some of these situations, or, especially, in this context,
it actually is going to take us a little bit more to actually believe
that something credible is going on, and that we need to do something about it.
So although this is a nice situation, and we try very hard to get to this place,
where people evacuate immediately and promptly, this is not the norm.
And also the ideal situation where people use all the exits evenly,
again this is not the norm.
What I was talking about in the previous module is that
we very much move toward the familiar.
So the exit in which people came into this movie theater is more likely the exit
that they're gonna use to evacuate.
And so, some of the exits in the back that we almost never use to get into a theater,
as shown in this example, is probably not gonna be used very widely,
unless there are people in that movie theater directing you to use that exit.
So there are ways in which we can get people to use the exits more evenly,
but some of these things have to be put into place.
And it's not just gonna be that easy, like you sound an alarm, and
everybody just kind of moves in a very ideal situation.
Okay, the next is the panic myth.
Okay, and human behavior in fire is not dominated by panic.
And I wanna read a little bit here from my notes about how the media
helps to perpetuate the panic myth.
Okay, following the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in 1977 in the USA,