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Ultimately it was decided that the events were caused by “stress due to upcoming exams” and the incident was determined to be an incident of “hysteria”. [72] Due to the determination of collective stress as the cause, medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew favors the neutral term mass psychogenic illness over mass hysteria. This is ...
Episodes of mass hysteria have been frequent in Nepalese schools, [32] [33] at times even leading to the temporary closure of those schools involved. [34] In 2018, a unique phenomenon of "recurrent epidemic of mass hysteria" was reported from a school of Pyuthan district of western Nepal. After a nine-year-old school girl developed crying and ...
Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. [1] In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women.
Thus, the cause of the phenomenon began at that time to be addressed by the investigation of insanity. [5] During that period in the 19th century, the term hysterical strength could also be found in the intersection of such fields, scientific and religious, for instance appearing in a statement by a physician for the Society for Psychical ...
Listeria is a foodborne bacterial illness and the third leading cause of death from a foodborne illness in the United States. The latest listeria risk includes frozen pancakes and waffles .
Hysterical contagion is a strong form of social contagion; the symptoms can include those associated with clinical hysteria. In 1977 Frieda L. Gehlen offered a revised theory of hysterical contagion that argues that what is actually contagious is the belief that showing certain characteristics will "entitle one to the secondary benefits of the ...
Hysteria!, which started streaming on Friday, October 18, is set in the 1980s and revolves around the era's Satanic Panic. At the center of the show is a high school heavy metal band of outcasts ...
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria—or mass psychogenic illness (MPI)—rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika (which, once united with Zanzibar, became the modern nation of Tanzania) near the border with Uganda.