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LuckyWell [14K]
3 years ago
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In 1938, actor Orson Welles hosted a radio broadcast dramatizing H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The War of the Worlds. A C

BS radio dance music program was interrupted suddenly by a news bulletin informing the audience that Martians had landed in New Jersey and were in the process of conquering the earth. The ensuing reaction is an example of:______.
a. mass hysteria.
b. propaganda distribution
c. public opinion.
d. mob behavior.
Social Studies
2 answers:
erastova [34]3 years ago
7 0

Answer: mass hysteria

Explanation: Mass hysteria is described as a conversion disorder, during which an individual has physiological symptoms affecting the nervous system within the absence of a physical explanation for illness, and which can appear in reaction to psychological distress.

anygoal [31]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

a. Mass hysteria

Explanation:

Mass hysteria In sociology and psychology, is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society due to what they heard (rumors) and/or fear.

In medicine, mass hysteria can be said to be the spontaneous manifestation or production of chemicals in the body that makes you have the same or similar hysterical physical symptoms by a two or more people.

That is to say, you begin to feel as though you re sick or that you have a physical injury that the other person has, when In reality you do not have these things.

An Example of mass hysteria occurs when a group of people believe they are suffering from a similar disease or ailment, it is also called mass psychogenic illness or epidemic hysteria.

This is what happened when the audience(from the question) learnt that Martians has landed in new Jersey.

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