IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/stpchp/978-3-031-24967-9_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The World Stampeded: From Mass Hysteria to Prolonged Mass Hysteria

In: The Covid-19 Pandemic

Author

Listed:
  • Panagiotis Karadimas

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, people were constantly under the delusion of an exaggerated threat. When Sars-Cov-2 started circulating, the public was inundated with warnings (primarily due to media coverage) that serious disease and death are around the corner, and mass hysteria was ignited. The irrational fear that everybody faces high likelihood of death was taken as gospel, and this belief led to the development of emergent norms in the society which in turn helped spread the hysteria across the population. While episodes of mass hysteria in the past suggest that mass hysteria wanes sooner rather than later, in the Covid-19 crisis, governmental interventions, mainly lockdowns, exacerbated the effect by leading to a novel kind of mass hysteria, what I would like to call as prolonged mass hysteria.

Suggested Citation

  • Panagiotis Karadimas, 2023. "The World Stampeded: From Mass Hysteria to Prolonged Mass Hysteria," Studies in Public Choice, in: The Covid-19 Pandemic, chapter 0, pages 59-70, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-3-031-24967-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24967-9_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-3-031-24967-9_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.