Emily Kwong
speaker
4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And within seconds, the tornado hits.
And Nanda wasn't sure she was going to make it.
She held onto her husband and parts of the roof ripped off.
She saw the sky above them and she started praying.
But then to her surprise, she had a thought about an acquaintance from childhood, someone she barely knew.
Wait, so in this moment, an acquaintance popped into her head?
It was the face of a girl Nanda bullied in eighth grade.
So Nanda was lucky that day.
About 160 people died in this infamous tornado.
But she and her husband survived.
And this memory of thinking about the girl she bullied stayed with her.
It's so...
Astonishing to me that in a moment where she had every reason to think about herself, she was having altruistic feelings about someone else.
It actually turns out there's a lot of social psychology around this.
Why we think about other people when disaster strikes and how the very worst moments in our lives can sometimes bring out our best.
So today on the show, the social science of catastrophe compassion.
How disasters and traumatic events can bring us together.
You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
Pauline, before we get into catastrophe compassion, it's a very interesting topic.
Let's note, this episode grew out of a reporting project you're doing about the science of love through a grant from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.
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