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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

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Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. the 'violent' level. [2] Ozmen, H.B.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

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The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.