Psychology of misinformation and the media: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic by Debanjan Banerjee, T S Sathyanarayana Rao

“…As billions are being isolated at their homes to contain the infection, the uncertainty gives rise to mass hysteria and panic. Amid this, there has been a hidden epidemic of “information” that makes COVID-19 stand out as a “digital infodemic” from the earlier outbreaks. …”
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Individual psychological security in the post-isolation period as a scientific research subject by N.A. Stadulskaya, E.I. Finogenko, G.M. Aglyamova, E.N. Morozova, I.V. Galaktionov

“…Given the results, it can be concluded that the swift spreading of mass hysteria and panic resulting from COVID-19 has been characterized by constant psychological issues in public, consisting of a decline in the level of psychological safety. …”
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RETRACTED: COVID-19 as an “Infodemic” in Public Health: Critical Role of the Social Media by Debanjan Banerjee, K. S. Meena

“…As billions are being isolated at their homes to contain the infection, the uncertainty gives rise to mass hysteria and panic. Amidst this, there has been a hidden epidemic of “information” that makes COVID-19 stand out as a “digital infodemic” from the earlier outbreaks. …”
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Aesthetic Practices of the New Right – Fake and Post-Truth as a challenge for transgressive art and cultural practices by Sofia Bempeza

“…On the other hand it discusses artistic positions that employ methods like subversive affirmation and over-identification and analyses more thoroughly the Viennese feminist group Burschenschaft Hysteria. Considering the popular and/or transgressive aesthetic practices of the New Right (and the Alt-Right) we can critically review artistic and cultural practices, which use appropriation, mimicking, fakes and over-identification as methods to distort sociopolitical phenomena. …”
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The Medicinal Usage and Restriction of Ginseng in Britain and America, 1660-1900* by Heasim SUL

“…Starting from the late 17th century doctors prescribed ginseng to cure many different kinds of ailments and disease such as: fatigue general lethargy, fever, torpidity, trembling in the joints, nervous disorder, laughing and crying hysteria, scurvy, spermatic vessel infection, jaundice, leprosy, dry gripes and constipation, strangury, yellow fever, dysentery, infertility and addictions of alcohol, opium and tobacco, etc. …”
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How do Obese Women Cope with Social Stigma? A Phenomenological Study by Farnaz Rahnavard, Ahmad Sadati, Masood Amini

“…The main strategies revealed include social resistance; passivity; psychological problems and hysteria; extreme denial of self body image; social isolation; and ignorance of what others say (self empowerment).Conclusion: Social stigma of obesity affects the obese women negatively. …”
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Why do we suffer? Understanding, treatment and processing of suffering in terms of existential analysis by Alfried Längle

“…So we can target our efforts over the suffering and prevent the occurrence of mental illness (e.g., depression, hysteria, addiction, PTSD, etc.).…”
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“A Vague, Invarious Delight”: Ezra Pound’s “Middle-Aging Care” and Bernard Hart’s Psychology of the Complex by J. Rhett Forman

“…As this study demonstrates, in “Middle-Aged” the emotional content of the imagist complex revitalizes the speaker’s creativity, whereas in “Villanelle” the speaker deteriorates into hysteria via the Hartian complex. A careful analysis reveals that, while “Villanelle” adheres more closely to Hart’s sense of the term “complex” as a pathogenic, destructive concept, “Middle-Aged” expresses a different, more constructive understanding of the term in accord with Pound’s usage in “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.”…”
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I sogni cinematografici di Jean-Paul Sartre by Clizia Centorrino

“…According to the director, the final version of the movie is too long, but nonetheless the changes destroyed Sartre’s work. Hysteria, a subject in which Sartre had always been interested, and dreams were his main objects of interest. …”
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The planner’s subjective destitution: towards a hysterical-analytical triad of planning theoryresearch- practice by Ignacio Castillo Ulloa

“…I argue that each element of the planning theory-research-practice 'triad' acts as the discursive 'agent' and gives rise to particular kinds of 'subject-planner' (the 'master', the 'expert', the 'idealistic' and the 'pragmatic') with specific ideological upshots ('hidden' big other, 'feigned' big other, hysteria and subjective destitution). Primarily a theoretical discussion, the article is also partially underpinned by my own practical experience in planning. …”
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Comparative Survey of Mental Disorders and Personality Characteristics in Persons With Drug Dependent and Non Drug Dependent in Hamadan, Iran by Ali Ghaleiha, Abdollah Farhadi Nasab, Mohammad Kazem Zarabian, Nasrin Matinnia

“…Results: Between two groups in clinical and validity scales of MMPI test expect for hypochondriasis and hysteria and scales of SCL 90-R test expect somatization and interpersonal sensitivity differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). …”
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Albert Maltz and Raisa Orlova, 1960s–1970s by Olga I. Shcherbinina

“…At the peak of McCarthyism hysteria, he was almost labeled as a Soviet spy. Soviet editorial policies towards Maltz’s novels and short stories provide conclusive evidence that literary critics in the USSR had a keen interest in his works and continued to treat him as a friend of the Soviet Union – a fact that seems exceptional against the background of the Cold War outbreak. …”
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Georges Gilles de la Tourette and his legacy by Andrea E Cavanna, Stefano Seri

“…The importance of the 1885 article was greatly underestimated at the time of its publication, partly because Gilles de la Tourette's main interests lied in the field of hysteria and hypnosis. Throughout the first half of the XX century, his name was progressively neglected, as the psychoanalytic paradigm that prevailed associated tics with rare and somewhat bizarre psychologically driven manifestations. …”
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Combating the infodemic: COVID-19 induced fake news recognition in social media networks by Shankar Biradar, Sunil Saumya, Arun Chauhan

“…As a result, the number of people seeking information about the epidemic via Internet media has increased. The impact of the hysteria that has prevailed makes people believe and share everything related to illness without questioning its truthfulness. …”
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Much Ado about Nothing by Ludovica Grossi

“…The research focuses on the main actors of the current political discourse in Italy, their inaccuracy and deliberate ambiguity in addressing concerns over the Compactduring Parliamentary sessions and through the mass media, and the failure of the opposition, together with civil society, to leverage a valid counterargument to the growing hysteria about the migration crisis. The expected outcomes are the identification of common patterns in the nationalist discourse in Italy and the advancement of possible new practices to effectively foster a consistent, level-headed conversation about migration management that steers away from sterile symbolism and responsibly addresses community issues at the national and EU levels.…”
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Da destruição do corpo feminino à criação da posterioridade: estética da reação e o antagonismo à violência discursiva by Fernanda Barboza de Carvalho Nery

“…Utiliza-se, assim, duas músicas da escritora e compositora Letrux (2017a, 2017b): a música single Hysteria, e a música Que estrago, do álbum Letrux em noite de climão, para que seja possível proceder, a partir do delineamento dos corpos femininos, à identificação dos traços reativos persistentes na autoria feminina contemporânea. …”
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Neurodevelopmental versus functional tics: The state of the art by Andrea E Cavanna, Giulia Purpura, Renata Nacinovich

“…Functional movement disorders are a common type of functional neurological disorder, which has previously been referred to as hysteria and conversion, among other diagnostic labels. …”
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Cerebral systems in the pathogenesis of endogenous psychoses by ANIBAL SILVEIRA

“…Such pathogenic criterion may also be useul to define mental conditions other than psychoses, as hysteria, neuroses and psychopathic inferiority (Tables 4 and 5). …”
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The Great Silence: The Science and Philosophy of Fermi’s Paradox by Milan M. Ćirković by Damien Broderick

“…asked Nobelist Enrico Fermi in 1950, lunching with colleagues, toying with the mid-century hysteria over flying saucers. If our understanding of science is correct, “they” must be there, in profusion if not in UFOs. …”
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Preventive effect of Ferula asafoetida oleo gum resin on histopathology in cuprizone-induced demyelination mice by Seyyed Majid Bagheri, Mohammad Javad Maghsoudi, Maryam Yadegari

“…Background: Ferula asafoetida is introduced as a valuable remedy for hysteria and some other nervous disorders in Iranian traditional medicine. …”
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