The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
Categories: Science & Math, Self-Help
Journalist Amanda Ripley studies how people behave during disasters such as fires, plane crashes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks. Drawing on interviews with survivors and research in psychology and neuroscience, she describes the three stages of response, denial, deliberation and the decisive moment, and explains why some people freeze while others act. Ripley shows how preparation and training can help ordinary people survive the unthinkable.
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- Shane Parrish: “An exceptional book about who survives and who doesn’t in a disaster.”