Hysterical contagion

In the article called “Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York”, the author Ruth Graham explains how many teenage girls are getting all the similar symptoms. Some of these symptoms are nausea, dizziness, cramping, and passing out. This has only happened to a couple boys, but mostly teenage girls. Also, some of these girls start to act dramatic over the things they do. Other girls seem to follow what other girls are doing. All their actions seem to lead up to mass hysteria. The definition of mass hysteria is a group of people all with similar emotional or physical symptoms. Mass hysteria could also cause threats to society spread through rumors and fear. In the book “The Crucible” about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, also contained hysteria by the girls. Whenever the girls accused someone of being a witch, hysteria was shown. They would act like they saw a spirit or like they were being attacked by one. When one girl shouted out or cried all the others would do the same. Most of the adults seemed to believe them on about who they accused. In the article called “Mass Hysteria in Upstate New York” it states that 14 students all had symptoms of mass hysteria most of those symptoms are just like the girls in “The Crucible.” Also all those students are from the same school called Le-Roy Junior-Senior High School. It seems like they are just following each other. Only 1 out of the 14 students was a boy and the rest were girls. In addition that mostly only girls have come down…

Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Hysteria is the underlying cause for everything that happens in the play; it is what moves the story along and urges the reader to think critically about the character’s actions and choices or rather their lack of critical thinking and choice. While there are many factors that potentially contributed to the hysteria in Salem, what is depicted in The Crucible is something man-made and perpetuated through the choices and actions of specific characters. The Crucible…

Assignment #7 • Explain in detail Box 8.3 The June Bug Disease: A Case of Hysterical Contagion- use the book and one additional reference. Pg 203 - The June Bug Disease was an episode of 62 influenced laborers that had side effects, for example, queasiness, deadness, wooziness, and some of the time heaving. A large portion of the laborers had already been chomped by a bug, for example, a gnat or parasite. Government wellbeing authorities started an examination that tried parasites, gnats,…

Film Analysis: Contagion By [Your Name Here] This film analysis focuses on the 2011 film Contagion starring Gwynneth Paltrow and Matthew Damon. Contagion presents a scenario in which a fictional virus of unknown origin and pathology originates in Hong Kong and quickly spreads throughout the world on a massive scale. The film pursues a handful of narrative threads with special attention being paid to the relationship between a father and his daughter left to grieve the loss of their respective…

behaviour is, therefore, an outcome of conformity” (Davetian). The emergent norm theory states that collective behaviour cannot be understood unless one takes into account interactive and influential relationships between the group as a whole and its members as individuals. It further notes that not all crowd members are acting in the same way, similar to the Greek riot, some will choose violent actions such as throwing bottles and lighting buildings on fire, while others will be reluctant…

“stress contagion” within such social networks (1990). Danquah states, “I wonder how long I would have been able to maintain emotional stability if poverty hadn’t worn me out” (p 152, 1991). I also believe that it was difficult for her to realize this because when she spoke out about feeling depressed, her peers would tell her that she has been hanging out with too many white folks and that she needs to take her troubles to Jesus, not a psychiatrist (1992). Alvidrez (1999) suggests that there…