"What Happens To Our Minds During Pandemics,
Natural Disasters, Terrorist Attacks, and Other
Extreme Calamities?
Whether natural or man-made, local or global,
disasters impact our thinking and behavior on both a
personal and societal level. Even rather ordinary
crises in our personal lives like the loss of a job or the
end of a relationship trigger overwhelming feelings. At
the societal level, group anxieties coupled with the
moral pressure to conform can send us all down the
path to ruin.
Why does this happen and, through understanding
human psychology, how can we prevent this in the
future? In this highly original and engagingly written
book, Author Christopher J. Ferguson examines how
pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and
other events of mass hysteria impact our psychology
and prevent us from adequately responding to,
preventing, or learning from those calamities."