Quarantelli, E. L.Dynes, Russell R.2006-04-052006-04-051970American Behavioral Scientist. January-February 1970. 13(3): 325-330. Copyright © SAGE Publications0002-7642http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/2348Disasters have always captured human imagination. Throughout the Old Testament, the frequency with which disasters are used as central or as incidental themes suggests that they have always been familiar to man's experience and that they conveyed meanings beyond the significance of the events themselves. Even today, a close examination of the news media forces one to the conclusion that disasters continue to be "newsworthy." This special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist focuses on organizational and group behavior in disaster. The papers represent one attempt to deal with behavior in the crises event called disaster. They concern themselves with problems as old as man but ones which have had only sporadic and isolated social science attention.5319044 bytesapplication/pdfen-USCollective BehaviorDisaster ResearchArticle