Mass hysteria and mass panic
03 Oct 1994 12:02
See also: Social Contagion
- Recommended:
- Malcolm Gladwell, "Is the Belgian Coca-Cola hysteria the real thing?" The New Yorker 12 July 1999 [Online]
- Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl, Anna Pisarenko, Ewgeni Jakubovski and Carolin Fremer, "Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness", Brain forthcoming (2021)
- Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterial Epidemics and Modern Media
- To read:
- Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion
- Robert E. Bartholomew and Hilary Evans, Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion
- Hadley Cantril, Invasion from Mars
- Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior
- Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo and Richard L.
Rapson, Emotional Contagion: Studies in Emotion and Social
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- Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
- Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster [As a counter-point on the "panic" front]
