The Invasion From Mars: A Study In The Psychology Of PanicTransaction Publishers - 224 Seiten On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H. G. Wells fantasy, The War of the Worlds. What listeners heard sounded so realistic that at least a million were frightened by word that "strange creatures" from Mars had landed in central New Jersey and were "unleashing a deadly assault." Several thousand were so terrified they ran into the streets, drove away in their cars, or called the police for information about how to escape. Why did so many panic when the circumstances reported were so improbable? That is just the question Hadley Cantril, then a young social psychologist, set out to answer. |
Inhalt
THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE PANIC | 47 |
HOW THE STIMULUS WAS EXPERIENCED | 67 |
DESCRIPTION OF REACTIONS | 87 |
CONDITIONS INHIBITING CRITICAL ABILITY | 127 |
THE HISTORICAL SETTING | 153 |
THE INDIVIDUAL CASE | 167 |
Appendix A Miscellaneous information | 207 |
Tables | 221 |
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