How your brain works in an emergency, in 9 minutes
Briefly

Humans, like most mammals, tend to shut down in really frightening situations for which they have no training or prior experience. Researchers call it negative panic. People do nothing. They shut down.
In fact, you have another personality - a 'disaster personality' -, and it's helpful to understand what it is before you are forced to embody it.
What you learn in a real disaster is that you have another personality, a disaster personality, and it's helpful to understand it better before you need it.
Studying human behavior in different disasters across history reveals a huge spectrum of responses. Sometimes people start hysterically screaming, others shut down. Some laugh in the face of a life or death situation.
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