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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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The Spatial Stroop Effect between The Direction and Installed Location of The Emergency Evacuation Route Sign

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2016, v.35 no.1, pp.1-12
https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2016.03.35.1.1






& (2016). The Spatial Stroop Effect between The Direction and Installed Location of The Emergency Evacuation Route Sign. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 35(1), 1-12, https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2016.03.35.1.1
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Abstract

It is vital to select a correct evacuation route based on the direction guided by emergency evacuation route signs during a disaster. Because emergency evacuation route signs guide evacuation directions using left and right arrows, it is possible to produce the spatial Stroop effect due to the direction of the emergency evacuation route sign and its installed location. The current study conducted a laboratory experiment to examine whether the Stroop facilitation and/or interference effect is observed due to the installed location of the emergency evacuation route sign in various scenes. The results showed that the interference effect was strongly observed across scenes whereas the facilitation effect was weaker in stair-scenes than in corridor-scenes. These results indicate that the installed location of the emergency evacuation route sign in the horizontal plane can strongly affect human evacuation behavior. Therefore, the current findings should be legislated in a standard manner for fast and accurate human decision making in evacuation situations.

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spatial Stroop effect, emergency evacuation route sign, evacuation behavior, facilitation effect, interference effect, 공간 스트룹 효과, 통로유도등, 피난행동, 간섭효과, 촉진효과

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