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'Mass hysteria', also called 'collective hysteria' or 'collective obsessional behavior', is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person. They then may believe they are suffering from a similar disease or ailment.^[1]
It may begin when a group is affected by an individual becoming hysterical during a period of stress. ^[2] A person perceiving illness in themselves or others, triggers a similar reaction in other group members. A potential symptom is group nausea, muscle weakness fitting or headache.^[3]
A writer on UFO's, Jerome Clark— while recognizing that mass panic can undoubtedly be genuine and widespread—argues that mass hysteria can be "a classic blame-the-victim strategy" in cases where authorities or experts can find no explanation for puzzling or frightening events.
Sightings of religious miracles are often attributed to mass hysteria.^[4]
Incidences of scapegoating such as Satanic Ritual Abuse while sometimes overlapping in symptoms with mass hysteria, can also be explained as moral panic.

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3. http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.155/healthissue_detail.asp
4. http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/delusions.html]

See also

★ Bandwagon effect

★ Bacchanalia

★ Bear market

★ Collective consciousness

★ Collective behavior

★ Collective Effervescence

★ Collective intelligence

★ Conversion syndrome

★ Craze

★ Crowd psychology

★ ''Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'' by Charles Mackay

★ Folie à deux

★ Group behaviour

★ Groupthink

★ Herd behavior

★ Herd instinct

★ Hysteria

★ London Monster

★ The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

★ Mean world syndrome

★ Meme

★ Mob mentality

★ Mob rule

★ Moral panic

★ ''Morangos com Açúcar''

★ Morgellons

★ New Delhi monkeyman

★ Photosensitive epilepsy

★ Penis panic

★ Reign of Terror

★ Sheeple

★ Spring Heeled Jack

★ Stampede

★ Stock market bubble

★ Stock market crash

★ Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic

★ Witch-hunt

Sources

★ Jerome Clark (1993). ''Unexplained! 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena.'' Canton, Milwaukee: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 0-8103-9436-7.

External links

★ "Mass Hysteria." SelfhelpMagazine.com November 3, 2000.

★ Mass hysteria hits Malaysian school

★ Six hundered girls in Mexico suffer from collective hysteria