{"id":3987,"date":"2018-05-23T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:39","slug":"us-prepping-culture-influenced-by-media-and-government-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/05\/23\/us-prepping-culture-influenced-by-media-and-government-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;prepping&#8217; culture influenced by media and government fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/l-m\/mills-michael.html\">Dr Michael Mills<\/a> has found that most people hoarding items such as food and water do so &#8216;just in case&#8217;, rather than because of deeply-held, irrational beliefs that society is on the verge of an imminent collapse.<\/p>\n<p>For details see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/18116\/american-prepping-culture-influenced-by-media-and-government-fears\">University News Centre<\/a> article<\/li>\n<li>paper in the Journal of Risk Research &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13669877.2018.1466825\">Preparing for the unknown\u2026 unknowns: \u2018doomsday\u2019 prepping and disaster risk anxiety in the United States<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by Dr Michael Mills has found that most people hoarding items such as food and water do so &#8216;just in case&#8217;, rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/05\/23\/us-prepping-culture-influenced-by-media-and-government-fears\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":3988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,135297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}