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A professor of clinical included a lecture on crowd psychology in his annual
course. To illustrate mass hysteria, he regularly showed TV news
footage of teenage crowds greeting the Beatles at the local airport
in the 1960s.
One year, when he ran the footage, he heard squeals and bursts of laughter from his students. When the film ended he asked what had caused the hilarity. Replied one student, "We recognized some of our mothers!" |