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Epidemiology (21)5 2010
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We determined the frequency and predictors of mass psychogenic illness within a sample of chemical incidents.
Information was collected on a random sample of 280 chemical incidents. We developed consensus operational criteria for mass psychogenic illness and estimated its frequency. We then assessed...
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PMID: 20592616
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Previous works have shown that consumers are influenced by others in decision making. Herd behavior is common in situations in which consumers infer product quality from other consumer choices and incorporate that information into their own decision making. This research presents two studies examini...
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PMID: 20712500
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We analyze this real-world event from a social psychological perspective. Specifically, we review the details surrounding the event and examine why protest manifested in this form of online attack and discuss how it was successfully orchestrated from a framework provided by social psychology, the sc...
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PMID: 20712503
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Workforce planning for first aid and medical coverage of mass gatherings is hampered by limited research. In particular, the characteristics and likely presentation patterns of low-volume mass gatherings of between several hundred to several thousand people are poorly described in the existing liter...
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PMID: 21053194
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At a large public event, or mass gathering, various factors influence patient presentations that brings challenges to patient care. The chain of survival has been investigated in the prehospital setting. However, this has not explicitly included the mass-gathering environment.
This study sought to d...
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PMID: 21053196
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)21 2010
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From 16 November 2009 to 22 January 2010, Taiwan investigated 23 clusters of mass psychogenic illness after vaccination (MPIV) in the nationwide in-school vaccination programme against the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1). The median age of the 350 ill students (68% female) was 13 years. Intense medi...
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PMID: 20519106
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Journal of Psychohistory (37)4 2010
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Structured sanitary preparation to mass gatherings is based on the set of instructions and legal requirements which are different for different jurisdictions. In many countries special checklists are used for itemized scrutiny of the sanitary preparation to the event. Those checklists are present in...
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PMID: 20499653
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (151)43 2009
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British Journal of Social Psychology (48)Pt 3 2009
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Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either 'mass panic' or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- versus low-identification emergency mass emergency survivors to test the interlinked claims (1) that s...
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PMID: 18789185
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This study developed a scale measuring the spiritual vulgarity of the masses, based upon Ortega's "The revolt of the masses" (1957). A questionnaire was constructed with forty items, based on Ortega's descriptions of the characteristics of the spiritual vulgarity of the masses. The questionnaire was...
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PMID: 19172911
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Medical Journal of Australia (189)5 2008
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Unrelated passerine birds often join together while mobbing, a widespread antipredator behavior during which birds harass a predator. Although previous analyses concluded that mobbing could not have evolved via reciprocity, Krams and colleagues' field experiments show that birds preferentially join m...
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PMID: 18585823
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A European Youth Olympic Sports Festival (EYOF), in Jaca, Northern Aragon, Spain, involving 1500 athletes, from 43 countries was held in January for 7 days. The event was marred by a case of type B Neisseria meningitidis. The usual care of the patient was performed in a local hospital. He eventually...
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PMID: 18427404
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Behavioural Processes (77)3 2008
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We recorded the flight distances of different mouflon group types in a natural population in Sardinia. The comparison of the flight distances of the groups (n groups=375, n mouflons=1303) provided evidence for the key role of lamb presence. Female groups with lambs fled at greater distances than mal...
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PMID: 18029113
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (13)6 2008
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The pilot study demonstrated that it was possible to perform "live", portable injury surveillance during patient presentations at two mass gatherings. The Injury Surveillance System ensured immediate data capture. Well-defined communication systems established for this pilot also enabled early actio...
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PMID: 18491666
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Three studies examined the hypothesis that collective guilt and shame have different consequences for reparation. In 2 longitudinal studies, the ingroup was nonindigenous Chileans (Study 1: N = 124/120, lag = 8 weeks; Study 2: N = 247/137, lag = 6 months), and the outgroup was Chile's largest indige...
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PMID: 18179319
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (105)3 Pt 1 2007
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One of the classic research topics in adaptive behavior is the collective displacement of groups of organisms such as flocks of birds, schools of fish, herds of mammals, and crowds of people. However, most agent-based simulations of group behavior do not provide a quantitative index for determining...
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PMID: 18229552
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Many cases of medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) have been recorded. The sufferers of a large proportion of the more recent cases believe their illness to have been caused by exposure to chemicals in the environment. The evacuation of Melbourne airport in February 2005 exemplifies a rece...
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PMID: 17763084
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Lynch mob atrocity did not increase as a function of the relative numbers of African Americans in the county population but it did increase as a function of the relative numbers of mob members in the lynch mob. Discussion considers the implications of these results....
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PMID: 17933732
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The Lancet (370)9586 2007
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We adopt an individual-based model for group formation and subject it to simulated predation and foraging; the haploid individuals evolve via a genetic algorithm based on their relative success under such pressure. Our work suggests that flock or herd formation is likely to be driven by predator avo...
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PMID: 17472913
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The objectives of this paper are to develop insights into the mind of the terrorist, to conduct a review of health impacts on the health of populations, especially from the point of view of mental health impacts caused by terrorist attacks and to discern the role to be played by forensic psychiatry...
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PMID: 17566899
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This article focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as both one of the most important mental health consequences of mass violence and as the manifestation of a disrupted human attachment system. The implications are many in terms of treatment and prevention. For instance, since the vulnera...
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PMID: 17566900
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Children and families are now in the front line of war, conflict and terrorism as a consequence of the paradigm shift in the nature of warfare and the growth of terror as a weapon. They are as vulnerable as are adults to the traumatizing effects of violence and mass violence. Furthermore, employing...
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PMID: 17566904
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Mass violence carries with it an enormous impact on health; the psychological impact is well recognized but poorly understood. There is a need for health professionals around the world to learn basic issues about the psychological impact of violence and to have available more specialized training to...
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PMID: 17566908
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This paper is based on the Bruce Burns Memorial Trust Lecture, Terrorism and Mental Health, presented in October 2005, in Birmingham. In addition to written sources, it is informed by the author's experience and contact with military and police experts in this arena over 28 years as a member of the...
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PMID: 17566906
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There is growing awareness of the mental health impact of all types of mass violence. The exposure of large population groups, mostly having no mental health problems prior to the exposure, and the subsequent development, in a significant proportion of the population, of a variety of psychiatric sym...
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PMID: 17566896
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Northern Ireland lived through a campaign of terrorism for thirty years. This has now ended and substantial progress has been made towards political stability through a long-term peace process. Using his experience as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, but also as leader of a political party, negot...
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PMID: 17566898
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Revue medicale suisse (3)110 2007
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Conversations with school and crisis personnel following large scale emergencies in and around schools, such as shootings, wildfires, and the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, indicated a need for pre-incident training in managing student behavior during emergencies. This artic...
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PMID: 18372664
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Lebanese Medical Journal (55)2 2007
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We investigated such an occurrence in a small village in Lebanon chronically under threat of war. A 16-year-old single female, school student, was referred to Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, for attacks of shortness of breath, muscle cramps, tremors and dizziness, for severa...
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PMID: 17685127
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We need to know what hooligans think in order to anticipate their actions and prevent their violent behaviors. In this paper, I propose a theory of the hooligan's conscious mind, by analyzing the thinking of a real Italian hooligan who was my patient. I will show that violent behaviors of hooligans...
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PMID: 17209939
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Neurologists are most likely to become involved in primarily diagnosing those bioterrorist attacks utilising botulinum toxin. Oral ingestion, or possibly inhalation, are likely routes of delivery. The characteristic descending paralysis starts in the extraocular and bulbar muscles, with associated a...
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PMID: 16844143
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Ugeskrift for laeger (168)36 2006
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There is increasing focus on the gender perspective related to the consequences of collective violence. Women run a greater risk of being victims of sexual violence, but few studies have focused on gender differences with respect to physical violence, sexual violations and the impact on health. Furt...
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PMID: 16999904
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We examined the prevalence of probable major depression and risk factors for depression in the 6-month period after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center among New York City (NYC) metropolitan residents. A total of 2700 persons who were representative of the NYC metropolitan area...
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PMID: 16971817
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We confirmed the prediction of a rapid transition from disordered to ordered movement and identified a critical density for the onset of coordinated marching in locust nymphs. We also demonstrated a dynamic instability in motion at densities typical of locusts in the field, in which groups can switc...
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PMID: 16741126
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Symptoms of depression and Sense of Coherence (SOC) in a sample of mass-evacuated adults from Kosovo were studied using a prospective design with a baseline study and follow-ups at 3 months and 6 months in Sweden, with an additional follow-up after 1.5 years in both Sweden and Kosovo. The 12-item ve...
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PMID: 16699388
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This study examined the relationships between avoidant and ambivalent attachment dimensions, empathy, and helping behavior in the context of one of the most tragic examples of collective loss in the USA. US college students (314 total: 219 females, 95 males) completed questionnaires between 20 and 4...
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PMID: 16581620
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Various terms are nowadays used to denote mass hysteria, such as 'mass psychogenic illness' and 'mass sociogenic illness'. Recent studies investigating personality types predisposed to mass hysteric reactions are inconclusive with a range of results found. Cognitive models of this condition have bee...
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PMID: 16612198
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British Journal of Social Psychology (45)Pt 1 2006
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We consider both the theoretical implications of this analysis for research on group processes (in particular the importance of accountability issues once one moves beyond the laboratory and deals with groups that have a past and future and in which membership is more than simply an act of choice) a...
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PMID: 16628867
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Psicothema (18)1 2006
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Infrahumanization researchs have shown that people attribute their ingroup exclusively human features, for example, the ability to experience secondary emotions. This bias lead people to deny this ability to outgroup and, consequently, to infrahumanize them. However, it would have conditions in whic...
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PMID: 17296012
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The problem of surge capacity in the wake of a terror-related emergency has lead to a number of interesting proposals designed to mitigate the effects of crowds as well as deficiencies in patient care capacities. The most controversial of these is a proposal to close hospital doors in the wake of a...
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PMID: 16904615
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Pediatric heat-related illnesses are likely to occur during mass gatherings and special events. Because critical care nurses may be called upon to provide care during such events, education in the recognition, treatment, and prevention of these illnesses is essential. This article describes the path...
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PMID: 16868465
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (11)12 2006
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In a rapidly changing environment, national institutions in charge of health security can no longer rely only on traditional disease reporting mechanisms that are not designed to recognise emergence of new hazards. Epidemic intelligence provides a conceptual framework within which countries may adap...
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PMID: 17370970
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (11)12 2006
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (11)11 2006
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American Psychologist (60)9 2005
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American Psychologist (60)9 2005
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