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...quake, possibly finding some of that refuge there, but employers discovered a phenomenon they call "on-the-job absenteeism." Workers take interminable breaks, have difficulty concentrating and generally show low productivity. "The reality is that many people are going to be operating at only 40% to 70% of normal speed," says Lilli Friedland, a member of the L.A. County Psychological Association disaster-response team...
...stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model of crisis resolution," and he predicts that, depending on how long the aftershocks continue -- there were five more of up to 3.4 magnitude last week -- many people are due to return to normal this month. Daniel Weiss, professor of medical psychology at the University of California, San Francisco's School of Medicine, warns, on the other hand, that "it's going to take people between four and six months to feel like themselves again...
...risk. Storms, floods and droughts are hitting populated areas with greater frequency and severity than predicted by actuarial analysis of the past 100 years. Natural disasters during the '80s, for instance, were 94% more frequent than in the 1970s. While it is possible that such a jump falls within normal climatic variation, insurance executives realize that it also conforms with patterns predicted for global warming...
According to Assistant Professor of Psychology Todd Heatherton, such reactions are in no way atypical. "It is normal to feel out of sorts" during the winter months, Heatherton said...
...race relations in American society demonstrates how whites, when given the chance to assess the collective capabilities of this group, have rarely provided "an honest account." The most important document in the history of this nation assessed the capabilities of African-Americans as being three-fifths that of a normal human being...