The myth that panic, looting, and antisocial behavior increases during the apocalypse (or apocalyptic-like scenarios) is in fact a mythāand has been solidly disproved by multiple scientific studies. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, a research group within the United States Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), has produced research that shows over and over again that ādisaster victims are assisted first by others in the immediate vicinity and surrounding area and only later by official public safety personnel [ā¦] The spontaneous provision of assistance is facilitated by the fact that when crises occur, they take place in the context of ongoing community life and daily routinesāthat is, they affect not isolated individuals but rather people who are embedded in networks of social relationships.ā (Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions, National Academy of Sciences, 2006). Humans do not, under the pressure of an emergency, socially collapse. Rather, they seem to display higher levels of social cohesion, despite what media or government agents might expectā¦or portray on TV. Humans, after the apocalypse, band together in collectives to help one anotherāand they do this spontaneously. Disaster response workers call it āspontaneous prosocial helping behaviorā, and it saves lives.