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[edit] Pinky Pinky & Tokoloshes in South Africa

I would think that the Pinky Pinky phenomemon experienced, (particularly by black schoolchildren?) in South Africa would seem to qualify as an example of collective hysteria, but I'm not enough of an expert to make that call.

Tokoloshes would also seem to be another (related?) example. 198.54.202.66 13:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

(unrelated stuff moved to User_talk:Knightstheround)


[edit] Does Collective Hysteria really exist in Psychology?

Any Case studies supporting this? I have not seen any. Only accuasiations(SP) that certain events are Mass Hysteria, But no concrete proof, only Theories and ideals. Magnum Serpentine 14:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Often called by other names (Med: Epidemic Hysteria)this is a known condition that does have a

large library of medical, psychopathological, sociological literature associated with it.


[edit] Removed

Removed 9/11 Conspiracy and Elliot Wave from list. These arent examples of mass hysteria , just unproven theories.

[edit] Redirect

Bear Market? Link from mass hysteria page - I dont know how to change that though .. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.232.163.23 (talk) 06:39, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aqua Teen Hunger Force

I just removed this from the article:

All of Boston have nicely demonstrated this phenomenon with the reaction to an advertisement for a cartoon show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (ATHF).

First, this isn't particularly encyclopedic in phrasing; it sounds like a personal opinion. Second, although it's a personal opinion I happen to agree with, per the verifiability policy, we need a reliable source, like a professor of psychology and an expert in mass hysteria saying that. If somebody can find that source, I'm glad to put together an enclopedic mention of this, hopefully in a section with other examples. William Pietri 17:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.


Collective hysteria → Mass hysteria — Mass hysteria is by far the the most common and widely used term. Psychologists might use "collective hysteria" but most people would search for "mass hysteria". Googling both terms shows that "mass hysteria" gives more than 97% of the total hits. ( 851,000 for Mass hysteria / 21,900 for Collective hysteria) Saikokira 01:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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[edit] Survey - in support of the move

  1. Support per WP:COMMONNAME. --Kusunose 04:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
  2. Support per WP:COMMONNAME as well. "Collective hysteria" is overtly technical jargon which the average wikipedia is not going to be searching for. Mass hysteria has the largest presence in the common vernacular mostly because it is the term that the media prefers. We should go with what people are going to respond to and that is "Mass Hysteria". 205.157.110.11 03:39, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey - in opposition to the move

  1. Oppose Scientists use "collective", journalists use "mass" - We should use collective, with of course a redirect from mass. Johnbod 04:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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This article has been renamed from collective hysteria to mass hysteria as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 07:22, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jerome Clark

Why on earth is a UFO author's view on the matter given such a significant chunk of the text of the article??? That seems like a classic case of undue weight, which is prohibited by policy here (and just all around a bad idea). DreamGuy 05:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I wondered just that- articles full of WP:BOLLOCKS at the mo. I'm going to fix it a bit.Merkinsmum 22:03, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Global Warming and Mass Hysteria

Sitting back in the UK and observing how the public has reacted to being spoon fed the opinion (and that's all it is) that mankind has and is causing global warming I would argue that the public's headless chicken approach to become 'green' is in fact mass hysteria. The Government of course are profiting nicely with lots of new taxes to encourage the people. And the people accept this as being necessary Finalreminder (talk) 10:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I quite agree with you. But, putting on my Wikipedia Editor Hat, I have to wonder how you propose to add this sort of thing to the article without offending WP:NPOV. HiramShadraski (talk) 13:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Agree as well. forestPIG 19:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)