Emily Kwong
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4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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Okay.
Let's go back to Nanda.
So she survives this tornado and has this interesting takeaway.
Right.
Yeah.
So the tornado ripped through this densely populated town in the central part of Joplin.
Thousands of homes were destroyed and about a third of the town's 50,000 residents were displaced.
But here's why we're talking about this tornado 15 years later.
So within months, this town became known not just for its tragedy, but for the kindness and cooperation that led to its speedy recovery.
So almost 100,000 volunteers from almost every state.
and Japan came to Joplin to help rebuild.
That's amazing, the amount of people that came together to help.
It's pretty awesome.
Like locals coming out of the woodwork to help, ranchers cooking steaks for volunteers, a university dean who set up cots at an emergency shelter even after losing his own home.
So if you think all of this is rare, this kindness after disaster, research shows it's not.
Yeah, let's get into the psychology of this.
What does science have to say?
Yeah, so scientists who have studied behavior after mass trauma say disasters spark an outpouring of kindness and form a powerful bond between strangers.
Stanford social psychologist Jamil Zaki actually has a term for this.
He calls it catastrophe compassion.
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