Hysterical contagion
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Hysterical contagion
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In social psychology, hysterical contagion occurs when people in a group show signs of a physical problem or illness, when in reality there are psychological and social forces at work. Hysterical contagion is a strong form of social contagion; the symptoms can include those associated with clinical hysteria. In 1977 Frieda L. Gehlen offered a revised theory of hysterical contagion that argues that what is actually contagious is the belief that showing certain characteristics will "entitle one to
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