ML20054J095

Testimony of J Kagan Re Emergency Evacuation of Children in 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone.Evacuating Children Separately from Parents Places Children at Serious Levels of Psychological Risk

ML20054J095
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Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	06/15/1982
From:	Kagan J PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT INDIAN POINT, PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, NEW YORK, ROCKLAND CITIZENS FOR SAFE ENERGY, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS, WEST BRANCH CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
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H ARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPAR'l Mi.NT OF l'SYCllOI.OGY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS Witu4ki lane ts ll ui 33 Kinkt4No Sin t t T Cassonsoct, Massacncsiirs on38 15 June 1982 Testimony of Jerome Kagan, PhD My name is Jerome Kagan; I am Professor of Iluman Development at Harvard University and have been a member of the faculty of the Depart-ment of Psychology and Social Relations since 1964. I am the past presi-dent of the Division on Developmental Psychology of the American Psycho-logical Association and the Eastern Psychological Association. I am a member of the National Advisory Council to the Natienal Institute of Child llealth and lluman Development. I teach child-development to un-dergraduate and graduate students and have donc research in the field of child development since 1954. In collaboration with Drs. Paul Mussen and John Conger I have published five editions of a textbook on child development called Child Development and Personality. In 1962 I pub-lished a book entitled Birth to Maturity, in 1971 a book entitled Change and Continuity in Infancy, in 1978, together with Richard Kearsley and Philip Zelazo, I published a book entitled Infancy: Its Place in Human Development, and in 1981 I published a book entitled The Second Year.

I have co-authored numerous other research publications on children and their development.

I would like to comment on the planning for the emergency evacuation of children in the ten-mile emergency planning zone, should'there be a breakdown of the Indian Point nuclear energy plants of.New York.

First, there will be a proportion of school age children, perhaps 15 percent, who are unusually vulnerable to high levels of anxiety when unexpected or unfamiliar events occur that are difficult to understand.1 Evacuation following an accident at a nuclear plant is a good example of the class of event that is likely to generate a serious distress reaction in these children. Existing research4 reveals that these levels of IC.E. Izard, Measuring Emotions in Infants and Children (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2J. Kagan, Psychological, Research on the iluman Infant , William T.

Grant Foundation Publication, New York, 1982.

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