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I'm not so sure, the NYC attacks didn't offer particular criminal opportunity. As for the photo, a mass stoicly crossing a bridge isn't the best supporting evidence. Cause trouble and a mob sets on you.

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The point of the article is that people behave in a civil manner in a disaster and the behavior during 9/11 seemingly supports this.

> Cause trouble and a mob sets on you.

Do you have anything to support this statement?

The original article contains links to the studies it is citing. If anyone has a serious criticism they can start here.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002716205285589

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.453...

http://dspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/590/PP205.pdf?...

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27438961

Some of these are behind paywalls, and the rest are more "meta-studies" as opposed to showing some methodology that arrived at a conclusion.

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