Mass hysteria and mass panic

03 Oct 1994 12:02

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See also: Social Contagion

Recommended:
• Malcolm Gladwell, "Is the Belgian Coca-Cola hysteria the real thing?" The New Yorker 12 July 1999 [Online]
• 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 Interaction</cite>
• Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster [As a counter-point]