Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

- Amanda Ripley

People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you m…

- Amanda Ripley

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

- Amanda Ripley

The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important …

- Amanda Ripley

You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confide…

- Amanda Ripley

Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically …

- Amanda Ripley

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in ear…

- Amanda Ripley

Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during t…

- Amanda Ripley

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. W…

- Amanda Ripley