The other day I was just reading the time magazine and I found and article that described the drama of 33 Chilean miners that have being trapped inside a mine for months. They are confined in a very small space 538 sq. ft. (50 sq. m) at 2,300 ft. (700 m) below Chile's Atacama Desert since August 5 and they are facing the possibility of staying there for four months, that will be until December. This is another problem to consider because of the upcoming summer. Psychologists and anthropologists are studying the human behavior by situation analysis and observation.
According to John Fairbank, and expert on traumatic stress from Duke University, these men are experiencing all kind of possible stress. First thing that people undergo after a crisis is what Colonel Tom Kokditz, a psychologist and behavioral science at West Point, called “mortality salience”. Usually people have a normal understanding of death, they know that everybody will die eventually, but when the possibility of death is imminent the human behavior change. People tend to come together as a whole unit when they are facing death. Another thing that caught my attention was that in this kind of crisis the younger guys will probably defer to the older ones because their experience and maturity. In order to maintain these men under control psychologically the experts try to keep them busy and make their live meaningful because this create civility, which prevent conflict and atrocities. Chile's Trapped Miners
According to John Fairbank, and expert on traumatic stress from Duke University, these men are experiencing all kind of possible stress. First thing that people undergo after a crisis is what Colonel Tom Kokditz, a psychologist and behavioral science at West Point, called “mortality salience”. Usually people have a normal understanding of death, they know that everybody will die eventually, but when the possibility of death is imminent the human behavior change. People tend to come together as a whole unit when they are facing death. Another thing that caught my attention was that in this kind of crisis the younger guys will probably defer to the older ones because their experience and maturity. In order to maintain these men under control psychologically the experts try to keep them busy and make their live meaningful because this create civility, which prevent conflict and atrocities. Chile's Trapped Miners
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