In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population and society as a result of rumors and fear. A common type of mass hysteria occurs when a group of people believes that they have a similar disease or ailment, [ 5 ] sometimes referred to as mass sociogenic illness or epidemic hysteria. California drought manipulation. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read View source View history.
Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. See also: Mass psychogenic illness. British Journal of Psychiatry. Royal College of Psychiatrists: — PMID Mass sociogenic illness mirrors prominent social concerns, changing in relation to context and circumstance including hysteria from the topic at hands.
Prior to the , reports are dominated by episodes of motor symptom's typified by de-sociation, hormonics and psychologist agitated and incubated in an environment of preexisting tension. Nineteenth-century reports feature anxiety symptoms that are triggered by sudden exposure to an anxiety-generating agent chemicals , most commonly an variety of food poisoning rumours.
The Guardian. The recent outbreak of fainting in a school in Tanzania bears all the hallmarks of mass hysteria, says John Waller. But what causes it and why is it still happening around the world today? Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on Retrieved Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages First ed. Historical Research. ISSN Archived from the original on 21 May July 31, Retrieved July 1, Excerpted from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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