Colorful History of Popular Delusions
Colorful History of Popular Delusions This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable.…
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Colorful History of Popular Delusions
This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group reactions to fear or excitement are. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common?
But similar phenomena show up in our own era. And they offer insights into how these sometimes dangerous mob responses can be avoided.We may not be surprised to read about the peculiarities of the European Middle Ages, when superstition was commonplace: like the meowing nuns of France, "tarantism" (a dancing mania) in Italy, or the malicious anti-Semitic poison-well scares. Examples include the social-networking hysteria of 2012, which resulted in
Extraordinary Popular Delusions