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Michael Leytem * Emily Stark

pants look for social cues when deciding how
to respond to a ﬁre alarm in their residence
hall. We hypothesize that participants assume
that most ﬁre alarms are false or do not represent a potential emergency. In addition, we
hypothesize that participants will report using
social cues to determine how to respond to a
ﬁre alarm.
In our results, we ﬁrst describe participants' beliefs about ﬁre safety, as well as their
reports of past behaviors in responding to evacuations. We then describe the results of a scenario where participants reported on how they
would respond in a potential ﬁre emergency.
We conclude by interpreting our results in light
of the importance of social cues in guiding participants' behaviors, and include recommendations for college housing personnel to consider
to both extend research on social inﬂuence and
residents' responses to ﬁres, and to improve

the safety of students and staff living in residence halls.

METHODS
Participants
A total of 229 participants volunteered for
this study, via convenience sampling of students enrolled in psychology courses offering extra credit for research participation. All
participants were undergraduate students at
a regional comprehensive university in the
Midwest. Of the 229 participants, 161 (70%)
indicated that they were either a current resident or had previously lived in one of the four
residence halls on campus. Given the nature of
the current study, all participants who indicated not living in a residence hall were removed
from further analysis. The average age of the
participants was 20.16 years old; see Table 1 for
demographic information.

Table 1
Participant Demographics
Number (Percentage)
of Participants
Gender
Year in School

Ethnicity

64

Percentage of Overall
Undergraduate Population

Male

40 (24.9%)

49.1%

Female

121 (75.1%)

50.7%

First-year

55 (34%)

18.2%

Sophomore

34 (21%)

22.8%

Junior

39 (24%)

22.9%

Senior

32 (21%)

35.0%

White

143 (85%)

77.1%

Black / African-American

12 (7%)

5.1%

Asian-American

7 (4%)

3.6%

Hispanic / Latino

2 (1%)

3.7%

Other

5 (3%)

11.0%

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