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...radio play itself became a textbook example of mass hysteria: in 1940, Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril used an analysis of listeners' reactions to posit that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. That said, there's little chance that a media hoax of this magnitude could happen again. We've grown too sophisticated, too cynical to believe that little green men from Mars with big silver spaceships will land in New Jersey, of all places. We're too smart, for example, to be fooled by telephone calls suggesting that John McCain...
Years ago, the Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril posited that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. The jumbled frenzy of 24/7 information access may be making our current panic worse. It's tempting to check your investments every few minutes. But having more information, in this case, isn't necessarily better. Panic attacks end when you take a deep breath, and a step back...
...Alumni Bulletin stated that Lamont contained duplicates of books in high demand at other University libraries. The example given was Hadley Cantril's The Invasion From Mars...
This device became perfected so completely that by 1939 Government leaders could expect single-day response on an informational request, such as what the miners of West Virginia felt about a certain public issue. In 1940 Cantril's "Invasion of Mars," a study of public reaction to the famed Orson Welles broadcast, assumed the proportions of a classic in social psychology. Another of Cantril's efforts, the Leadership Poll, made a significant contribution with its culling of labor and business chieftain viewpoints on current affairs...
...indeed fortunate that the chief commercial agency, Dr. Gallup's, cropped up in the same location as the focus for academic research in the field. When Cantril and Gallup got their heads together they really sparked pretty well." The latest attempt to hold to standards, Allpot adds, is also Princeton-pushed: the International Congress of Public Opinion Research inaugurated at Williamstown in September and destined to lead to a certification system to insure reliable personnel...