Catastrophe!
How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse
$57.12
- Hardcover
258 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2022
Summary
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 r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781633887954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1633887952 |
| Author: | Christopher J. Ferguson |
| Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
| Imprint: | Prometheus Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 467g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 159mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Christopher J. Ferguson
Christopher J. Ferguson is a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. His research and clinical work explore issues of crime, violence, and antisocial behavior. He has also researched and written on the impact of media on viewers, including violent video games, sex in the media, and suicide-themed media. He is the author of How Madness Shaped History, and co-author (with Patrick M. Markey) of Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong. Ferguson is the editor of Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications, and has published articles in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, US News, the Houston Chronicle, and other publications, as well as a guest on various radio and television networks, including CNBC and local NBC, Spectrum, and Fox affiliates.
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