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Tag Archives: fear
Sesame Street #847: An Episode Forever Lost
Margaret Hamilton, swooped down onto Sesame Street on February 10, 1976 guest starring as the Wicked Witch of the West. She dropped her broom presumably in flight over the small town where David retrieved it from the street. David did not want … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, CTW Research Department, David, episode #847, experiment, fear, feather duster, lost episode, Margaret Hamilton, Mr. Hooper, Oscar the Grouch, Sesame Street, test study, Wicked Witch of the West
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Our Fancy – The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station – 1896
One short film had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic. It was the film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de la Ciotat (Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station). Although the cinematographic train … Continue reading
Our Fancy – Aspects of Collective Behavior: Fads, Mass Hysteria, and Riots
What is the difference between collective behavior and group behavior?Learn this and the idea behind the terms: fads, mass hysteria, and riots. – By Jeffrey Walsh -altered by Hystoria
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Tagged anxiety, chaos, cinnamon challenge, collective behavior, crazed, crowd behaviour, deindividuation, delusions, deviance, dynamics, epidemic hysteria, fads, fear, group behavior, groups, influence, irrational, mass psychogenic illness, memberships, negative news, norms, popularity, race, riots, rumours, threat, vandalism, violence
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