In the eye of the storm

[image error]Wired magazine's Haiti Rewired blog has an excellent piece on the 'psychological typhoon eye' phenomenon, discovered after studies of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, where those closest to the centre of the devastation actually reported less concern about their safety and health.

The effect was initially reported shortly after the disaster and was found to still be present in a follow-up study one year later.

From the Wired piece:

Two suggestions have been provided to account for the...