Consider the Following (Edited)excerpt from a James Thurber New Yorker

question 61

Multiple Choice

Consider the following (edited) excerpt from a James Thurber New Yorker piece: "Suddenly someone began to run.It may be that he had simply remembered … an engagement to meet his wife,for which he was now frightfully late.Whatever it was,he ran east on Broad Street....Somebody else began to run,perhaps a newsboy in high spirits....Another man … broke into a trot....A loud mumble gradually crystallized into the dread word 'damn.' 'The dam has broke!' The fear was put into words by a little old lady in an electric car,or by a traffic cop,or by a small boy: Nobody knows who....Two thousand people were abruptly in full flight...." This literary excerpt illustrates the phenomenon known as

• A) contagion.
• B) conversion.
• C) mass hysteria.
• D) collective psychosis.
• E) obedience.

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Definitions:

Automated Procedures

Tasks or operations conducted automatically through the use of technology, software, or machinery, often requiring minimal human intervention.

Experimenter Bias

A form of research bias where the researcher unintentionally influences the results of a study through their expectations or conduct.

Balanced Placebo Design

A balanced placebo design is an experimental approach used to study behavior under the influence of a drug when participants are misinformed about their drug status to remove psychological effects.

Expectations

Beliefs or anticipations about the way events, situations, or behaviors will or should unfold in the future.