Juanita Is Sitting on an Airplane and Hears Another Passenger

question 47

Multiple Choice

Juanita is sitting on an airplane and hears another passenger throwing up.The flight attendant asks the passenger if he often gets motion sickness,and he says no.Soon afterwards,Juanita hears another passenger in another part of the plane throwing up,and someone elsewhere coughing.She starts to notice that her stomach is feeling a bit upset.This could be an example of

• A) normative social influence.
• B) mass psychogenic illness.
• C) mass hysteria.
• D) psychosis.
• E) general psychogenic illness

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