When Orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds, a fictitious program about a hostile Martian takeover of Earth, many people who heard the program eventually believed the takeover was a real threat and panicked.
The power of ________ was a major cause of this widespread panic.
a. fear-arousing communications
b. informational social influence
c. propaganda
d. normative social influence
Question 2
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 dam.' 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. conversion.
b. propaganda.
c. collective psychosis.
d. contagion.
Martian geological features, such as the "Face on Mars", sometimes trigger facial pareidol
Martian Gullies
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.
Sample Stress Management Program
Example of an employee setup screen in a computerized payroll program.
Venera Program Collage