Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:25:54 +0100
From: Steph Greaves <sng-AT-prologic.net>
Subject: Re: "Puzzling Behavior" (fwd)


I spent a few months on a kibbutz in Israel in 1999.  For 'puzzling 
behaviour', try watching a film like 'Saving Private Ryan' with a bunch of 
young kibbutniks part-way through their compulsory military training, or 
looking forward to starting it -  from their reactions to the movie, you 
would have thought they were watching a comedy.

I always get quite involved in movies, and thought 'Saving Private Ryan' 
was harrowing.

I have found this puzzling ever since!

Steph.

At 15:15 21/10/01 +1300, Margaret Trawick wrote:
>For what it's worth - sometimes in the face of terrible calamity and danger,
>people break into laughter.  It doesn't mean that the laughing people don't
>care.  It is an uncontrollable reaction to stress.  I have seen this happen
>more than once.  I have done it myself.  There is probably some fancy
>psychological term for this reaction.
>
>Margaret
>
>
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