mass hysteria
English
Noun
mass hysteria (uncountable)
- (psychology) The sociopsychological phenomenon in which a large group of people exhibit the same or similar hysterical symptoms simultaneously.
- 1974 December, Lewis D. Polk, “Mass Hysteria in an Elementary School”, in Clinical Pediatrics, volume 13, number 12, DOI:, pages 1013:
- However, these make no mention of mass hysteria or give any suggestion that hysteria may affect multiple individuals at one time in a special situation.
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Translations
sociopsychological phenomenon
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