Stuff You Should Know
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Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria?
42 minutes Posted Dec 4, 2021 at 10:00 am.
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Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think? Find out in this classic episode.

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